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Favor: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,442 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4,442 in 2021; #4,589 in 2025. About 77% of babies named Favor in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,589 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #4,442.
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Favor: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 girls in 2025. Peak: #4,442 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 31 (2024).
In 2025, 30 US girls were named Favor, making it the 4,589th most common girls’ name of the year, down 85 places from #4,504 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 31 girls named Favor in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,442, reached in 2021. The most girls given the name in a single year was 31, in 2024. For comparison, it was #5,028 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Favor, making it the 8,469th most common boys’ name of the year, up 800 places from #9,269 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 8 boys named Favor in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #6,044, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 14. For comparison, it was #12,676 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Favor in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2002 with 5 babies. In all, 656 US babies have been given the name, 79% of them girls and 21% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 300 babies named Favor.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 249 US girls were named Favor; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 31. In 2025 that was about 1 in 53,576 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,589 | 9 | #8,469 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,504 | 8 | #9,269 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,292 | 9 | #8,462 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,708 | 12 | #6,952 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,442 | 9 | #8,382 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,331 | — | — |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,954 | 10 | #7,814 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,214 | 9 | #8,375 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,581 | 11 | #7,244 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,852 | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,028 | 5 | #12,676 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,818 | — | — |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,056 | 7 | #10,001 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,601 | 6 | #11,240 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,662 | 14 | #6,044 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,016 | 5 | #12,883 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,590 | — | — |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,864 | 10 | #7,877 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,911 | 5 | #12,957 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,433 | — | — |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,247 | — | — |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,051 | 5 | #11,927 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,722 | 5 | #11,450 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,284 | — | — |
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).