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Icarus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,771 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Icarus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,771 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Icarus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 boys in 2025. Peak: #4,771 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 21 (2025).
In 2025, 21 US boys were named Icarus, making it the 4,771st most common boys’ name of the year, up 537 places from #5,308 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 18 boys named Icarus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,771, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 21. For comparison, it was #7,697 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Icarus in 15 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2011 with 5 babies. In all, 169 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 94 babies named Icarus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 137 US boys were named Icarus; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 81,337 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).