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Poetry: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #6,493 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 Poetry in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,493 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Poetry: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 girls in 2025. Peak: #6,493 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 18 (2025).
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Poetry, making it the 6,493rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,826 places from #8,319 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 13 girls named Poetry in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #6,493, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 18. For comparison, it was #11,620 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Poetry in 23 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1999 with 5 babies. In all, 220 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 91 babies named Poetry.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 123 US girls were named Poetry; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,293 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 | 18 | #6,493 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,319 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,149 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,021 | — | — |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,618 | — | — |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,821 | — | — |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,634 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,669 | — | — |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,770 | — | — |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,661 | — | — |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,620 | — | — |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,225 | — | — |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,936 | — | — |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,391 | — | — |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,301 | — | — |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,611 | — | — |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,394 | — | — |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,015 | — | — |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,805 | — | — |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,632 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,250 | — | — |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,921 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,222 | — | — |
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).