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Bowie: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 164 in 2025. Its best rank was #952 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #952 in 2021; #1,228 in 2025. About 58% of babies named Bowie in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,228 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #952.
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Bowie: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 164 boys in 2025. Peak: #952 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 237 (2021).
In 2025, 164 US boys were named Bowie, making it the 1,228th most common boys’ name of the year, down 16 places from #1,212 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 167 boys named Bowie in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #952, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 237. For comparison, it was #2,388 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 117 US girls were named Bowie, making it the 1,736th most common girls’ name of the year, up 263 places from #1,999 in 2024. That is 19 more than the 98 girls named Bowie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,527, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 138. For comparison, it was #3,607 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bowie in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 5 babies. In all, 3,520 US babies have been given the name, 37% of them girls and 63% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,839 babies named Bowie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,795 US boys were named Bowie; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 237. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,415 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bowie ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #517 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 8 | #517 | — |
| Oregon | 5 | #624 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #863 | — |
| California | 24 | #936 | #1,053 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,019 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,068 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,120 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,315 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,491 | #2,430 |
| New York | 5 | #1,804 | #1,878 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 117 | #1,736 | 164 | #1,228 |
| 2024 | 98 | #1,999 | 167 | #1,212 |
| 2023 | 126 | #1,646 | 194 | #1,098 |
| 2022 | 110 | #1,847 | 198 | #1,093 |
| 2021 | 138 | #1,527 | 237 | #952 |
| 2020 | 114 | #1,753 | 176 | #1,119 |
| 2019 | 108 | #1,866 | 159 | #1,203 |
| 2018 | 113 | #1,801 | 210 | #987 |
| 2017 | 85 | #2,226 | 156 | #1,193 |
| 2016 | 76 | #2,427 | 134 | #1,330 |
| 2015 | 43 | #3,607 | 54 | #2,388 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,675 | 59 | #2,259 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,585 | 26 | #3,874 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,150 | 24 | #4,144 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,526 | 30 | #3,521 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,590 | 44 | #2,736 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,523 | 19 | #4,945 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,750 | 25 | #4,050 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,782 | 18 | #5,022 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,556 | 21 | #4,376 |
| 2005 | — | — | 13 | #5,912 |
| 2004 | — | — | 9 | #7,597 |
| 2003 | — | — | 9 | #7,310 |
| 2002 | — | — | 7 | #8,560 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #9,399 |
| 2000 | — | — | 6 | #9,211 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #7,652 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,162 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,068 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,401 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,020 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #6,839 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #5,645 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,078 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,605 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #3,986 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,371 |
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).