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Psalms: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,360 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 76% of babies named Psalms in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,360 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Psalms: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,360 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 35 (2025).
In 2025, 35 US boys were named Psalms, making it the 3,360th most common boys’ name of the year, up 688 places from #4,048 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 27 boys named Psalms in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,360, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 35. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Psalms, making it the 9,321st most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,589 places from #10,910 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 9 girls named Psalms in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #8,925, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 12. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Psalms in 20 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 6 babies. In all, 284 US babies have been given the name, 46% of them girls and 54% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 173 babies named Psalms.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 138 US boys were named Psalms; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,802 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 | 11 | #9,321 | 35 | #3,360 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,910 | 27 | #4,048 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,465 | 18 | #5,408 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,925 | 12 | #7,144 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,942 | 14 | #6,260 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,147 | 8 | #9,345 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,417 | 8 | #9,534 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,244 | 5 | #13,634 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,845 | 6 | #11,856 |
| 2016 | — | — | 5 | #13,702 |
| 2014 | — | — | 8 | #9,404 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,084 | 7 | #10,456 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,642 | — | — |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,918 | — | — |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,791 | — | — |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,990 | — | — |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,952 | — | — |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,140 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,950 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,304 | — | — |
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).