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Primrose: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 69 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,068 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,068 in 2021; #2,561 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Primrose in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,561 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #2,068.
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Primrose: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 69 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,068 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 93 (2021).
In 2025, 69 US girls were named Primrose, making it the 2,561st most common girls’ name of the year, down 446 places from #2,115 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 91 girls named Primrose in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,068, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 93. For comparison, it was #3,245 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Primrose in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 1,033 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 517 babies named Primrose.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 799 US girls were named Primrose; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 93. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,294 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Primrose ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #1,567 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,567 | #1,367 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,575 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,581 | #3,178 |
| California | 6 | #3,023 | #3,840 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 69 | #2,561 | — | — |
| 2024 | 91 | #2,115 | — | — |
| 2023 | 91 | #2,120 | — | — |
| 2022 | 88 | #2,170 | — | — |
| 2021 | 93 | #2,068 | — | — |
| 2020 | 85 | #2,147 | — | — |
| 2019 | 87 | #2,151 | — | — |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,380 | — | — |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,865 | — | — |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,895 | — | — |
| 2015 | 51 | #3,245 | — | — |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,703 | — | — |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,224 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,386 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,785 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,131 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,081 | — | — |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,776 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,951 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,840 | — | — |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,276 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,358 | — | — |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,900 | — | — |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,354 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,612 | — | — |
| 1917 | 7 | #4,016 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,823 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,082 | — | — |
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).