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Poet: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #5,361 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 53% of babies named Poet in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,361 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Poet: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 girls in 2025. Peak: #5,361 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 24 (2025).
In 2025, 24 US girls were named Poet, making it the 5,361st most common girls’ name of the year, up 983 places from #6,344 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 19 girls named Poet in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,361, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 24. For comparison, it was #9,996 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 21 US boys were named Poet, making it the 4,824th most common boys’ name of the year, up 11 places from #4,835 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 21 boys named Poet in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,824, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 21. For comparison, it was #9,357 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Poet in 20 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2005 with 5 babies. In all, 373 US babies have been given the name, 64% of them girls and 36% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 191 babies named Poet.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 140 US girls were named Poet; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 66,969 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 | 24 | #5,361 | 21 | #4,824 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,344 | 21 | #4,835 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,865 | 16 | #5,860 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,020 | 13 | #6,744 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,896 | 9 | #8,666 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,095 | 11 | #7,380 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,499 | — | — |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,226 | — | — |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,404 | 5 | #13,758 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,570 | 9 | #8,644 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,996 | 8 | #9,357 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,720 | 6 | #11,775 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,065 | 5 | #13,574 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,485 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,059 | — | — |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,288 | 5 | #13,970 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,663 | — | — |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,095 | 5 | #13,889 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,314 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,494 | — | — |
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).