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Pope: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,502 in 1918.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,502 in 1918; #7,553 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Pope in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,553 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1918, at #2,502.
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Pope: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,502 in 1918 · most boys in one year: 12 (1918).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Pope, making it the 7,553rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 6,194 places from #13,747 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 5 boys named Pope in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,502, reached in 1918. That year also had the most boys given the name: 12. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Pope in 12 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 89 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 34 babies named Pope.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 16 US boys were named Pope; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 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).