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Priest: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,424 in 1973.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,424 in 1973; #4,352 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Priest in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,352 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1973, at #1,424.
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Priest: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,424 in 1973 · most boys in one year: 50 (2019).
In 2025, 24 US boys were named Priest, making it the 4,352nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 189 places from #4,163 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 26 boys named Priest in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,424, reached in 1973. The most boys given the name in a single year was 50, in 2019. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Priest in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 6 babies. In all, 561 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 190 babies named Priest.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 277 US boys were named Priest; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 50. In 2025 that was about 1 in 71,170 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.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 24 | #4,352 |
| 2024 | — | — | 26 | #4,163 |
| 2023 | — | — | 16 | #5,861 |
| 2022 | — | — | 44 | #2,905 |
| 2021 | — | — | 41 | #3,013 |
| 2020 | — | — | 39 | #3,017 |
| 2019 | — | — | 50 | #2,614 |
| 2018 | — | — | 20 | #4,880 |
| 2017 | — | — | 9 | #8,656 |
| 2016 | — | — | 8 | #9,461 |
| 2014 | — | — | 11 | #7,424 |
| 2013 | — | — | 10 | #7,957 |
| 2012 | — | — | 5 | #13,727 |
| 2011 | — | — | 15 | #5,880 |
| 2010 | — | — | 13 | #6,619 |
| 2009 | — | — | 8 | #9,653 |
| 2008 | — | — | 11 | #7,580 |
| 2007 | — | — | 9 | #8,737 |
| 2006 | — | — | 13 | #6,371 |
| 2005 | — | — | 22 | #4,152 |
| 2004 | — | — | 18 | #4,738 |
| 2003 | — | — | 8 | #8,433 |
| 2002 | — | — | 9 | #7,480 |
| 2001 | — | — | 11 | #6,336 |
| 2000 | — | — | 7 | #8,895 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #11,170 |
| 1996 | — | — | 10 | #5,865 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #9,931 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #7,022 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,436 |
| 1975 | — | — | 12 | #3,192 |
| 1974 | — | — | 11 | #3,273 |
| 1973 | — | — | 36 | #1,424 |
| 1972 | — | — | 18 | #2,224 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,777 |
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).