Meaning not yet researched.
Acacia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 71 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,312 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,312 in 1998; #2,485 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Acacia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,485 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #1,312.
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Acacia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 71 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,312 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 143 (2002).
In 2025, 71 US girls were named Acacia, making it the 2,485th most common girls’ name of the year, up 237 places from #2,722 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 63 girls named Acacia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,312, reached in 1998. The most girls given the name in a single year was 143, in 2002. For comparison, it was #1,950 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Acacia in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 16 babies. In all, 4,310 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,193 babies named Acacia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 753 US girls were named Acacia; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 93. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,638 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Acacia ranked highest in Colorado in 2025, at #908 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Akacia, Acasia and Akasia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Akacia (144), Acasia (126), Akasia (88), Accacia (26), Akaycia (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Acacia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 5 | #908 | #692 |
| California | 6 | #2,767 | #1,818 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,290 | #2,050 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | #2,485 | — | — |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,722 | — | — |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,823 | — | — |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,555 | — | — |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,638 | — | — |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,216 | — | — |
| 2019 | 76 | #2,355 | — | — |
| 2018 | 87 | #2,159 | — | — |
| 2017 | 93 | #2,087 | — | — |
| 2016 | 88 | #2,188 | — | — |
| 2015 | 103 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 2014 | 92 | #2,097 | — | — |
| 2013 | 80 | #2,306 | — | — |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,373 | — | — |
| 2011 | 100 | #1,968 | — | — |
| 2010 | 88 | #2,202 | — | — |
| 2009 | 107 | #1,948 | — | — |
| 2008 | 127 | #1,740 | — | — |
| 2007 | 101 | #2,015 | — | — |
| 2006 | 118 | #1,761 | — | — |
| 2005 | 90 | #2,074 | — | — |
| 2004 | 122 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,561 | — | — |
| 2002 | 143 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 2001 | 124 | #1,506 | — | — |
| 2000 | 138 | #1,356 | — | — |
| 1999 | 132 | #1,341 | — | — |
| 1998 | 135 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 1997 | 128 | #1,343 | — | — |
| 1996 | 121 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 1995 | 106 | #1,492 | — | — |
| 1994 | 124 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 1993 | 114 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 1992 | 114 | #1,422 | — | — |
| 1991 | 91 | #1,642 | — | — |
| 1990 | 85 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 1989 | 83 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,891 | — | — |
| 1987 | 68 | #1,748 | — | — |
| 1986 | 62 | #1,816 | — | — |
| 1985 | 51 | #2,082 | — | — |
| 1984 | 57 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,151 | — | — |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,704 | — | — |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,614 | — | — |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,800 | — | — |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,672 | — | — |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,637 | — | — |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,942 | — | — |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,865 | — | — |
| 1975 | 16 | #3,951 | — | — |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,227 | — | — |
| 1973 | 15 | #3,971 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,558 | — | — |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,790 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).