Meaning not yet researched.
Silver: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 46 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,351 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,351 in 1983; #3,380 in 2025. About 71% of babies named Silver in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,380 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #2,351.
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Silver: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 46 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,351 in 1983 · most girls in one year: 55 (2023).
In 2025, 46 US girls were named Silver, making it the 3,380th most common girls’ name of the year, up 5 places from #3,385 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 47 girls named Silver in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,351, reached in 1983. The most girls given the name in a single year was 55, in 2023. For comparison, it was #3,753 in 2015 and #5,227 in 1950.
In 2025, 19 US boys were named Silver, making it the 5,171st most common boys’ name of the year, down 623 places from #4,548 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 23 boys named Silver in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #772, reached in 1896. The most boys given the name in a single year was 23, in 2024. For comparison, it was #8,629 in 2015 and #4,132 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Silver in 105 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1896 with 10 babies. In all, 2,277 US babies have been given the name, 77% of them girls and 23% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 527 babies named Silver.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 457 US girls were named Silver; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,941 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Sylver are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sylver (183).
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 Silver 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 | 46 | #3,380 | 19 | #5,171 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,385 | 23 | #4,548 |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,043 | 20 | #5,041 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,756 | 18 | #5,401 |
| 2021 | 47 | #3,383 | 18 | #5,304 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,901 | 19 | #5,011 |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,164 | 11 | #7,563 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,994 | 14 | #6,292 |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,473 | 13 | #6,616 |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,221 | 12 | #7,080 |
| 2015 | 41 | #3,753 | 9 | #8,629 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,169 | 16 | #5,679 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,230 | 17 | #5,359 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,843 | 6 | #12,062 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,557 | 9 | #8,660 |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,563 | 6 | #11,983 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,469 | — | — |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,032 | 8 | #9,732 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,518 | 9 | #8,814 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,182 | 13 | #6,401 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,450 | 8 | #8,968 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,788 | — | — |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,937 | 12 | #6,196 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,742 | 11 | #6,464 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,278 | 13 | #5,623 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,180 | 9 | #7,314 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,629 | 6 | #9,733 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,352 | — | — |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,154 | 9 | #6,539 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,293 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,456 | — | — |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,996 | 6 | #8,655 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,800 | 7 | #7,512 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,833 | 6 | #8,297 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,798 | 5 | #9,428 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,803 | — | — |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,315 | 5 | #9,044 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,927 | — | — |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,456 | 6 | #6,825 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,517 | — | — |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,502 | — | — |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,376 | — | — |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,316 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,320 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,501 | 7 | #5,438 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,229 | — | — |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,910 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,463 | 6 | #5,744 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,846 | 6 | #5,365 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,584 | — | — |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #5,001 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,417 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,960 | — | — |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,341 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,903 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,694 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,720 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,424 | — | — |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,954 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,466 | — | — |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,407 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,975 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,900 | — | — |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,464 | — | — |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,251 | — | — |
| 1955 | 10 | #4,019 | — | — |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,298 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,404 | 6 | #3,749 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,764 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,227 | 5 | #4,132 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,183 | — | — |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,844 | 6 | #3,618 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,302 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,165 | — | — |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,927 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,629 | — | — |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,977 |
| 1941 | 10 | #3,008 | 5 | #3,942 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,476 | — | — |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,563 | 5 | #3,917 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,905 | — | — |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,718 | 5 | #3,946 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,077 | — | — |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,876 | 8 | #2,933 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,778 | 5 | #4,089 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,724 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,802 | — | — |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,471 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,410 | — | — |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,225 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,521 | 9 | #3,111 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,893 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,977 | 7 | #3,818 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,901 | 6 | #4,179 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,975 | 11 | #2,779 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,889 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,621 | — | — |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,810 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,227 | — | — |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,392 | 8 | #3,039 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,475 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,964 |
| 1896 | — | — | 10 | #772 |
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).