Meaning not yet researched.
Rebel: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 50 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,620 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,620 in 2021; #3,204 in 2025. About 60% of babies named Rebel in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,204 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,620.
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Rebel: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 50 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,620 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 130 (2021).
In 2025, 50 US girls were named Rebel, making it the 3,204th most common girls’ name of the year, down 552 places from #2,652 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 66 girls named Rebel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,620, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 130. For comparison, it was #2,231 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 34 US boys were named Rebel, making it the 3,430th most common boys’ name of the year, down 168 places from #3,262 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 37 boys named Rebel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,325, reached in 2013. The most boys given the name in a single year was 58, in 2020. For comparison, it was #2,711 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rebel in 71 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 2,456 US babies have been given the name, 61% of them girls and 39% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 981 babies named Rebel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 834 US girls were named Rebel; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 130. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,145 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Rebelle and Rebyl are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rebelle (51), Rebyl (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Rebel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #3,204 | 34 | #3,430 |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,652 | 37 | #3,262 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,815 | 40 | #3,103 |
| 2022 | 68 | #2,600 | 37 | #3,264 |
| 2021 | 130 | #1,620 | 56 | #2,430 |
| 2020 | 94 | #2,001 | 58 | #2,342 |
| 2019 | 85 | #2,187 | 46 | #2,758 |
| 2018 | 106 | #1,897 | 57 | #2,351 |
| 2017 | 72 | #2,504 | 49 | #2,589 |
| 2016 | 102 | #1,968 | 44 | #2,759 |
| 2015 | 85 | #2,231 | 45 | #2,711 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,967 | 48 | #2,570 |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,399 | 55 | #2,325 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,431 | 17 | #5,439 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,110 | 19 | #4,945 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,068 | 22 | #4,486 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,573 | 21 | #4,711 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,424 | 20 | #4,859 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,857 | 16 | #5,626 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,669 | 10 | #7,875 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,545 | 7 | #9,900 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,187 | 6 | #11,038 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,624 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,507 | 7 | #9,167 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #10,266 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,716 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,866 | 6 | #9,013 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,292 | 6 | #8,772 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,182 | 6 | #8,648 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,421 | 8 | #6,838 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #9,846 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,961 | 8 | #6,562 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,964 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,021 | 6 | #7,058 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,544 | 13 | #3,681 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,758 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,623 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #6,151 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #7,069 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,250 | — | — |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,501 | — | — |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,214 | 6 | #6,071 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,458 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,315 | 8 | #4,470 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,826 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,931 | 8 | #4,324 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,319 | 7 | #4,676 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,707 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,015 | 7 | #4,340 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,079 | — | — |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,701 | 9 | #3,465 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,292 | — | — |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,950 | 5 | #4,607 |
| 1967 | 42 | #1,813 | — | — |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,412 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,343 | — | — |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,803 | 5 | #4,487 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,207 | 12 | #2,507 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,263 | 11 | #2,640 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,955 | 8 | #3,299 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,586 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,939 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,948 | — | — |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,855 | 7 | #3,465 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,906 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,164 | — | — |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,660 | — | — |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,540 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,101 | — | — |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,222 | — | — |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,343 | — | — |
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).