Meaning not yet researched.
Memphis: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 437 in 2025. Its best rank was #404 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #404 in 2021; #640 in 2025. About 75% of babies named Memphis in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#640 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #404.
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Memphis: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 437 boys in 2025. Peak: #404 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 768 (2021).
In 2025, 437 US boys were named Memphis, making it the 640th most common boys’ name of the year, down 52 places from #588 in 2024. That is 50 fewer than the 487 boys named Memphis in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #404, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 768. For comparison, it was #649 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 143 US girls were named Memphis, making it the 1,494th most common girls’ name of the year, up 91 places from #1,585 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 133 girls named Memphis in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,024, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 251. For comparison, it was #1,930 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Memphis in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 12,735 US babies have been given the name, 20% of them girls and 80% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,452 babies named Memphis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,934 US boys were named Memphis; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 768. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,909 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Memphis ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #219 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Memphys are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Memphys (112).
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 Memphis in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 26 | #219 | #525 |
| Missouri | 21 | #322 | #343 |
| South Carolina | 17 | #322 | #335 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #358 | — |
| Louisiana | 13 | #389 | #486 |
| Ohio | 28 | #394 | #471 |
| North Carolina | 27 | #412 | #546 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #415 | #434 |
| Virginia | 19 | #426 | #654 |
| Alabama | 12 | #441 | #404 |
| Michigan | 19 | #452 | #746 |
| Kansas | 8 | #455 | #454 |
| Georgia | 24 | #459 | #491 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #505 | #605 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #532 | — |
| Indiana | 13 | #534 | #338 |
| Iowa | 6 | #554 | — |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #555 | #650 |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #566 | #837 |
| Tennessee | 12 | #626 | #472 |
| Utah | 5 | #775 | #738 |
| Maryland | 6 | #778 | — |
| Illinois | 11 | #785 | #767 |
| Texas | 29 | #888 | #648 |
| Arizona | 6 | #899 | #763 |
| Florida | 14 | #994 | #762 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,095 | #904 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,133 | — |
| California | 15 | #1,280 | #1,301 |
| New York | 5 | #1,949 | #1,568 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 143 | #1,494 | 437 | #640 |
| 2024 | 133 | #1,585 | 487 | #588 |
| 2023 | 207 | #1,166 | 614 | #488 |
| 2022 | 251 | #1,024 | 705 | #442 |
| 2021 | 218 | #1,131 | 768 | #404 |
| 2020 | 168 | #1,315 | 653 | #455 |
| 2019 | 169 | #1,347 | 711 | #432 |
| 2018 | 145 | #1,510 | 647 | #458 |
| 2017 | 97 | #2,031 | 483 | #563 |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,109 | 429 | #624 |
| 2015 | 105 | #1,930 | 401 | #649 |
| 2014 | 104 | #1,934 | 371 | #683 |
| 2013 | 82 | #2,274 | 390 | #633 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,964 | 303 | #755 |
| 2011 | 78 | #2,386 | 316 | #721 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,799 | 407 | #611 |
| 2009 | 86 | #2,282 | 429 | #602 |
| 2008 | 78 | #2,455 | 351 | #685 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,276 | 271 | #798 |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,452 | 201 | #934 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,238 | 152 | #1,089 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,457 | 150 | #1,068 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,854 | 135 | #1,130 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,053 | 152 | #1,017 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,078 | 113 | #1,200 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,391 | 12 | #5,791 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #10,265 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,887 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,839 | — | — |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,404 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,380 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,779 |
| 1937 | — | — | 7 | #3,084 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,359 |
| 1929 | — | — | 7 | #3,444 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,532 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #4,038 |
| 1923 | — | — | 10 | #2,883 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,752 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,764 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,734 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,282 |
| 1916 | — | — | 8 | #3,095 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,748 | — | — |
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).