Rising fastest
Biggest rank improvements over the past 5 years. The names parents are quietly noticing.
Trends through 2025
Where the names
Where the names
are moving
Rising, falling, peaking, holding steady. Five-year movements from U.S. Social Security Administration data, across the 1007-name library.
At their all-time peak
Currently sitting at the highest rank these names have ever held in the U.S. records.
Holding steady
Top-50 names that have barely moved in 5 years. The ones that read as already settled in.
Falling out of fashion
Names that were higher up 5 years ago. Not gone, just less common in this year's birth records.
About these numbers
U.S. Social Security Administration tracks name counts from birth certificates from 1880 to present. Each year is a snapshot of names given to at least five babies. Ranks compare that year's count against every other name in the same gender field.
We pull a 5-year window because that's where movements stop being noise. One-year wobble can happen for any reason. 5 years means parents in different birth cohorts made the same choice.
These lists are bounded by the 1007 names in our library. As the library grows, the trend lists will surface more of what's moving.