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Purpose: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #5,065 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 58% of babies named Purpose in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,065 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Purpose: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 girls in 2025. Peak: #5,065 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 26 (2025).
In 2025, 26 US girls were named Purpose, making it the 5,065th most common girls’ name of the year, up 686 places from #5,751 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 22 girls named Purpose in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,065, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 26. For comparison, it was #15,971 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 19 US boys were named Purpose, making it the 5,154th most common boys’ name of the year, up 6,845 places from #11,999 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 6 boys named Purpose in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #5,154, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 19. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Purpose in 11 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2008 with 5 babies. In all, 209 US babies have been given the name, 67% of them girls and 33% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 173 babies named Purpose.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 130 US girls were named Purpose; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 26. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,818 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.
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).