Meaning not yet researched.
America: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 117 in 2025. Its best rank was #411 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #411 in 2002; #1,734 in 2025. Every baby recorded as America in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,734 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #411.
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America: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 117 girls in 2025. Peak: #411 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 719 (2005).
In 2025, 117 US girls were named America, making it the 1,734th most common girls’ name of the year, up 89 places from #1,823 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 110 girls named America in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #411, reached in 2002. The most girls given the name in a single year was 719, in 2005. For comparison, it was #962 in 2015 and #2,914 in 1950.
Social Security card records list America in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 16 babies with the name. In all, 13,538 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,982 babies named America.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,415 US girls were named America; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 261. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,737 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, America ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #331 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Amerika 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Amerika (330).
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 America 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 8 | #331 | #365 |
| Arizona | 6 | #917 | #536 |
| Texas | 30 | #950 | #379 |
| California | 24 | #1,089 | #581 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,124 | #918 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,176 | #2,100 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 117 | #1,734 | — | — |
| 2024 | 110 | #1,823 | — | — |
| 2023 | 97 | #2,020 | — | — |
| 2022 | 89 | #2,143 | — | — |
| 2021 | 112 | #1,803 | — | — |
| 2020 | 127 | #1,632 | — | — |
| 2019 | 158 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 2018 | 151 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 2017 | 193 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 2016 | 261 | #1,015 | — | — |
| 2015 | 282 | #962 | — | — |
| 2014 | 325 | #849 | — | — |
| 2013 | 347 | #784 | — | — |
| 2012 | 288 | #907 | — | — |
| 2011 | 329 | #814 | — | — |
| 2010 | 443 | #661 | — | — |
| 2009 | 544 | #560 | — | — |
| 2008 | 615 | #506 | — | — |
| 2007 | 700 | #460 | — | — |
| 2006 | 687 | #461 | — | — |
| 2005 | 719 | #427 | — | — |
| 2004 | 612 | #481 | — | — |
| 2003 | 563 | #510 | — | — |
| 2002 | 705 | #411 | — | — |
| 2001 | 513 | #521 | — | — |
| 2000 | 324 | #714 | — | — |
| 1999 | 247 | #871 | — | — |
| 1998 | 230 | #914 | — | — |
| 1997 | 134 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 1996 | 133 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 1995 | 115 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1994 | 119 | #1,380 | — | — |
| 1993 | 116 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 1992 | 98 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 1991 | 88 | #1,678 | — | — |
| 1990 | 73 | #1,905 | — | — |
| 1989 | 88 | #1,587 | — | — |
| 1988 | 75 | #1,704 | — | — |
| 1987 | 50 | #2,156 | — | — |
| 1986 | 55 | #1,980 | — | — |
| 1985 | 48 | #2,174 | — | — |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,229 | — | — |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,858 | — | — |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,494 | — | — |
| 1981 | 56 | #1,913 | — | — |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,863 | — | — |
| 1979 | 64 | #1,714 | — | — |
| 1978 | 39 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 1977 | 58 | #1,761 | — | — |
| 1976 | 79 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1975 | 52 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 1974 | 50 | #1,774 | — | — |
| 1973 | 34 | #2,267 | — | — |
| 1972 | 42 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 1971 | 36 | #2,214 | — | — |
| 1970 | 37 | #2,161 | — | — |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,707 | — | — |
| 1968 | 25 | #2,485 | — | — |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,433 | — | — |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,456 | — | — |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,839 | — | — |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,752 | — | — |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,177 | — | — |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,925 | — | — |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,611 | — | — |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,514 | — | — |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,598 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,424 | — | — |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,700 | — | — |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,975 | — | — |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,286 | — | — |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,431 | — | — |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,582 | — | — |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,477 | — | — |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,914 | — | — |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,182 | — | — |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,833 | — | — |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,535 | — | — |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,604 | — | — |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,141 | — | — |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,513 | — | — |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,254 | — | — |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,543 | — | — |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,883 | — | — |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,845 | — | — |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,228 | — | — |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,454 | — | — |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,034 | — | — |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,933 | — | — |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,930 | — | — |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,838 | — | — |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,040 | 5 | #3,794 |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,340 | — | — |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,258 | — | — |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 1924 | 36 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1923 | 37 | #1,284 | — | — |
| 1922 | 46 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 1920 | 34 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1919 | 39 | #1,194 | — | — |
| 1918 | 50 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,655 | — | — |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,868 | 5 | #3,916 |
| 1915 | 30 | #1,286 | 6 | #3,407 |
| 1914 | 29 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1913 | 26 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1912 | 23 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1911 | 19 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 1909 | 19 | #937 | — | — |
| 1908 | 15 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1907 | 16 | #948 | — | — |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 1905 | 18 | #873 | — | — |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,170 | — | — |
| 1903 | 17 | #837 | — | — |
| 1902 | 16 | #872 | — | — |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 1900 | 15 | #972 | — | — |
| 1899 | 24 | #629 | — | — |
| 1898 | 20 | #751 | — | — |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1896 | 16 | #814 | — | — |
| 1895 | 12 | #934 | — | — |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 1893 | 12 | #867 | — | — |
| 1892 | 16 | #727 | — | — |
| 1891 | 21 | #572 | — | — |
| 1890 | 15 | #693 | — | — |
| 1889 | 20 | #569 | — | — |
| 1888 | 17 | #612 | — | — |
| 1887 | 15 | #588 | — | — |
| 1886 | 14 | #606 | — | — |
| 1885 | 18 | #500 | — | — |
| 1884 | 12 | #614 | — | — |
| 1883 | 14 | #519 | — | — |
| 1882 | 13 | #509 | — | — |
| 1881 | 11 | #508 | — | — |
| 1880 | 16 | #422 | — | — |
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).