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Purity: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 29 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,726 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 Purity in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,726 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Purity: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 29 girls in 2025. Peak: #4,726 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 29 (2025).
In 2025, 29 US girls were named Purity, making it the 4,726th most common girls’ name of the year, up 683 places from #5,409 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 24 girls named Purity in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,726, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 29. For comparison, it was #7,198 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Purity in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 5 babies. In all, 379 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 135 babies named Purity.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 195 US girls were named Purity; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,423 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 | 29 | #4,726 | — | — |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,409 | — | — |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,511 | — | — |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,160 | — | — |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,187 | — | — |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,029 | — | — |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,635 | — | — |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,674 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,361 | — | — |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,157 | — | — |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,198 | — | — |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,007 | — | — |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,833 | — | — |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,643 | — | — |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,111 | — | — |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,670 | — | — |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,609 | — | — |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,021 | — | — |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,650 | — | — |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,414 | — | — |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,743 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,112 | — | — |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,288 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,884 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,951 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,042 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,766 | — | — |
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).