Meaning not yet researched.
Echo: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 78 in 2025. Its best rank was #845 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #845 in 1983; #2,339 in 2025. About 63% of babies named Echo in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,339 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #845.
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Echo: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 78 girls in 2025. Peak: #845 in 1983 · most girls in one year: 182 (1984).
In 2025, 78 US girls were named Echo, making it the 2,339th most common girls’ name of the year, down 652 places from #1,687 in 2024. That is 43 fewer than the 121 girls named Echo in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #845, reached in 1983. The most girls given the name in a single year was 182, in 1984. For comparison, it was #1,833 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 45 US boys were named Echo, making it the 2,809th most common boys’ name of the year, up 665 places from #3,474 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 33 boys named Echo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,448, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 57. For comparison, it was #6,428 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Echo in 119 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 5 babies. In all, 5,241 US babies have been given the name, 92% of them girls and 7.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 994 babies named Echo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,105 US girls were named Echo; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 152. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,606 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Echo ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1,596 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Echoe are summarised on this page.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Echoe (16).
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 Echo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 5 | #1,596 | — |
| California | 9 | #2,145 | #1,755 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,268 | #2,663 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #2,339 | 45 | #2,809 |
| 2024 | 121 | #1,687 | 33 | #3,474 |
| 2023 | 136 | #1,558 | 32 | #3,583 |
| 2022 | 128 | #1,653 | 57 | #2,448 |
| 2021 | 152 | #1,421 | 38 | #3,136 |
| 2020 | 123 | #1,668 | 35 | #3,220 |
| 2019 | 95 | #2,018 | 23 | #4,374 |
| 2018 | 98 | #2,001 | 21 | #4,644 |
| 2017 | 72 | #2,488 | 24 | #4,255 |
| 2016 | 102 | #1,963 | 15 | #5,862 |
| 2015 | 113 | #1,833 | 13 | #6,428 |
| 2014 | 89 | #2,145 | 14 | #6,083 |
| 2013 | 66 | #2,668 | 14 | #6,000 |
| 2012 | 72 | #2,522 | 10 | #7,711 |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,600 | 13 | #6,340 |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,735 | 6 | #11,137 |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,058 | 6 | #11,399 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,170 | 8 | #9,226 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,724 | — | — |
| 2006 | 46 | #3,477 | — | — |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,282 | — | — |
| 2004 | 60 | #2,721 | — | — |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,777 | — | — |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,903 | — | — |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,778 | — | — |
| 2000 | 68 | #2,288 | — | — |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,374 | — | — |
| 1998 | 74 | #2,017 | — | — |
| 1997 | 58 | #2,314 | — | — |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,729 | 5 | #9,415 |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,430 | — | — |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,268 | — | — |
| 1993 | 54 | #2,360 | — | — |
| 1992 | 60 | #2,227 | — | — |
| 1991 | 68 | #2,022 | — | — |
| 1990 | 68 | #1,995 | — | — |
| 1989 | 74 | #1,810 | — | — |
| 1988 | 89 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 1987 | 66 | #1,779 | — | — |
| 1986 | 101 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1985 | 115 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1984 | 182 | #846 | — | — |
| 1983 | 181 | #845 | — | — |
| 1982 | 60 | #1,813 | — | — |
| 1981 | 61 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 1980 | 64 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 1979 | 75 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,028 | — | — |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,795 | — | — |
| 1976 | 40 | #2,145 | — | — |
| 1975 | 52 | #1,786 | — | — |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,227 | — | — |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,523 | — | — |
| 1972 | 36 | #2,146 | — | — |
| 1971 | 44 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,465 | — | — |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,603 | — | — |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,211 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,387 | — | — |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,078 | — | — |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,591 | — | — |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,414 | — | — |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,220 | — | — |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,073 | — | — |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,083 | — | — |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,020 | — | — |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,485 | — | — |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,136 | — | — |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,760 | — | — |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,854 | — | — |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,130 | — | — |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,372 | — | — |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,968 | — | — |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,709 | — | — |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,507 | — | — |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,051 | — | — |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,626 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,088 | — | — |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,772 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,733 | — | — |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,097 | — | — |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,666 | — | — |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,291 | — | — |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,210 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,505 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,374 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,449 | — | — |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,668 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,505 | — | — |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,467 | — | — |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,531 | — | — |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,362 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,044 | — | — |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,568 | — | — |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,437 | — | — |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,196 | — | — |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,817 | — | — |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,096 | — | — |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,869 | — | — |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,134 | — | — |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,347 | — | — |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,705 | — | — |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,748 | — | — |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,479 | — | — |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,067 | — | — |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,022 | — | — |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,664 | — | — |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,265 | — | — |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,112 | — | — |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,339 | — | — |
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).