Meaning not yet researched.
Baby: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #524 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #524 in 1994; #6,177 in 2025. About 61% of babies named Baby in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,177 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #524.
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Baby: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 boys in 2025. Peak: #524 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 373 (1994).
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Baby, making it the 6,177th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,723 places from #4,454 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 23 boys named Baby in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #524, reached in 1994. That year also had the most boys given the name: 373. For comparison, it was #6,366 in 2015 and #3,348 in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Baby, making it the 10,223rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 5,438 places from #4,785 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 28 girls named Baby in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #692, reached in 1995. That year also had the most girls given the name: 308. For comparison, it was #4,878 in 2015 and #3,441 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Baby in 104 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 7 babies. In all, 12,481 US babies have been given the name, 49% of them girls and 51% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 5,568 babies named Baby.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 311 US boys were named Baby; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 122,005 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Babby, Babie and Babbi are summarised on this page.
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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: Babby (34), Babie (15), Babbi (12).
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 Baby in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,223 | 14 | #6,177 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,785 | 23 | #4,454 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,377 | 30 | #3,725 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,025 | 49 | #2,677 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,944 | 37 | #3,186 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,033 | 30 | #3,582 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,332 | 39 | #3,060 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,471 | 37 | #3,113 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,407 | 33 | #3,388 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,479 | 19 | #4,969 |
| 2015 | 28 | #4,878 | 13 | #6,366 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,364 | 13 | #6,336 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,509 | 18 | #4,997 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,192 | 20 | #4,708 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,159 | 16 | #5,453 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,418 | 21 | #4,535 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,408 | 17 | #5,351 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,308 | 21 | #4,555 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,114 | 18 | #5,015 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,739 | 34 | #3,158 |
| 2005 | 128 | #1,590 | 185 | #945 |
| 2004 | 211 | #1,087 | 226 | #798 |
| 2003 | 245 | #955 | 245 | #737 |
| 2002 | 237 | #945 | 228 | #757 |
| 2001 | 251 | #902 | 268 | #678 |
| 2000 | 263 | #844 | 281 | #646 |
| 1999 | 240 | #889 | 267 | #646 |
| 1998 | 234 | #900 | 225 | #729 |
| 1997 | 235 | #868 | 240 | #677 |
| 1996 | 220 | #895 | 264 | #637 |
| 1995 | 308 | #692 | 334 | #558 |
| 1994 | 299 | #699 | 373 | #524 |
| 1993 | 296 | #720 | 331 | #559 |
| 1992 | 294 | #726 | 333 | #559 |
| 1991 | 263 | #781 | 314 | #569 |
| 1990 | 227 | #864 | 271 | #611 |
| 1989 | 226 | #836 | 266 | #601 |
| 1988 | 161 | #1,016 | 171 | #718 |
| 1987 | 109 | #1,281 | 139 | #782 |
| 1986 | 81 | #1,516 | 103 | #896 |
| 1985 | 100 | #1,323 | 91 | #956 |
| 1984 | 53 | #1,945 | 88 | #938 |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,771 | 54 | #1,253 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,837 | 63 | #1,153 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,539 | 45 | #1,413 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,623 | 22 | #2,286 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,550 | 24 | #2,110 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,240 | 19 | #2,384 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,783 | 18 | #2,466 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,490 | 37 | #1,471 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,786 | 36 | #1,479 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,705 | 20 | #2,132 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,597 | 24 | #1,821 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,508 | 13 | #2,670 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,381 | 13 | #2,689 |
| 1970 | — | — | 11 | #2,908 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,487 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,681 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,310 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,145 | — | — |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #3,982 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,256 | — | — |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,739 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,721 | 5 | #3,843 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,517 | 9 | #2,688 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,441 | 6 | #3,348 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,294 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,367 | 6 | #3,341 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,073 | 6 | #3,394 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,466 | — | — |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,153 | — | — |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,398 | 5 | #3,460 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,744 | — | — |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,678 | — | — |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,544 | — | — |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,976 | — | — |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,433 | — | — |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,462 | 7 | #2,886 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,467 | 6 | #3,196 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,163 | 10 | #2,309 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,929 | 5 | #3,686 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,926 | 8 | #2,759 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,976 | 12 | #2,105 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,634 | 6 | #3,395 |
| 1931 | 29 | #1,376 | 12 | #2,215 |
| 1930 | 28 | #1,463 | 11 | #2,455 |
| 1929 | 38 | #1,215 | 15 | #2,007 |
| 1928 | 43 | #1,164 | 9 | #2,863 |
| 1927 | 36 | #1,333 | 11 | #2,538 |
| 1926 | 36 | #1,307 | 11 | #2,579 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,471 | 12 | #2,446 |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,775 | 11 | #2,661 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,744 | 10 | #2,780 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,624 | 9 | #3,035 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,703 | 7 | #3,551 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,121 | 6 | #3,853 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,827 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,542 | — | — |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,904 | — | — |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,845 | — | — |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,465 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,674 | — | — |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,354 | — | — |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,391 | — | — |
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).