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Favour: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,116 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4,116 in 2016; #7,242 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Favour in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,242 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #4,116.
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Favour: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 girls in 2025. Peak: #4,116 in 2016 · most girls in one year: 36 (2016).
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Favour, making it the 7,242nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,303 places from #10,545 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 9 girls named Favour in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,116, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 36. For comparison, it was #4,634 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Favour in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 6 babies. In all, 507 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 7.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 259 babies named Favour.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 189 US girls were named Favour; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 107,151 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 | 15 | #7,242 | — | — |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,545 | — | — |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,752 | — | — |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,680 | — | — |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,757 | — | — |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,369 | — | — |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,256 | — | — |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,511 | — | — |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,095 | — | — |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,116 | — | — |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,634 | 7 | #9,887 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,535 | — | — |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,278 | 7 | #10,002 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,756 | — | — |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,006 | 5 | #12,905 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,254 | — | — |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,187 | — | — |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,207 | 6 | #11,521 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,584 | — | — |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,991 | 7 | #9,899 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,248 | — | — |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,413 | — | — |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,149 | 5 | #11,451 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,986 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,110 | — | — |
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).