Meaning not yet researched.
Spenser: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #503 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #503 in 1988; #11,803 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Spenser in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,803 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #503.
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Spenser: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #503 in 1988 · most boys in one year: 333 (1988).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Spenser, making it the 11,803rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,056 places from #9,747 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 8 boys named Spenser in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #503, reached in 1988. That year also had the most boys given the name: 333. For comparison, it was #6,626 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Spenser in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #3,207, reached in 1992. That year also had the most girls given the name: 36. For comparison, it was #18,773 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Spenser in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 6 babies. In all, 3,363 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,621 babies named Spenser.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 72 US boys were named Spenser; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Spencer (129,638 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Spenser 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 | — | — | 6 | #11,803 |
| 2024 | — | — | 8 | #9,747 |
| 2023 | — | — | 7 | #10,655 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,110 | 6 | #12,119 |
| 2021 | — | — | 11 | #7,509 |
| 2020 | — | — | 12 | #6,986 |
| 2019 | — | — | 6 | #11,944 |
| 2018 | — | — | 11 | #7,550 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,511 | 5 | #13,977 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,773 | 13 | #6,626 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,382 | 14 | #6,263 |
| 2013 | — | — | 12 | #6,962 |
| 2012 | — | — | 15 | #5,951 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,220 | 16 | #5,641 |
| 2010 | — | — | 14 | #6,320 |
| 2009 | — | — | 18 | #5,282 |
| 2008 | — | — | 21 | #4,685 |
| 2007 | — | — | 31 | #3,498 |
| 2006 | — | — | 22 | #4,350 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,185 | 29 | #3,441 |
| 2004 | — | — | 40 | #2,687 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,058 | 51 | #2,173 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,439 | 64 | #1,812 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,921 | 67 | #1,730 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,782 | 84 | #1,477 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,235 | 83 | #1,417 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,770 | 94 | #1,286 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,838 | 110 | #1,139 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,349 | 137 | #948 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,497 | 170 | #823 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,503 | 127 | #987 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,864 | 108 | #1,078 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,207 | 161 | #833 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,530 | 182 | #758 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,429 | 218 | #688 |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,316 | 261 | #612 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,677 | 333 | #503 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,845 | 248 | #579 |
| 1986 | — | — | 93 | #952 |
| 1985 | — | — | 24 | #2,287 |
| 1984 | — | — | 10 | #4,165 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #7,189 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,290 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,640 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,731 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,367 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,843 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #4,181 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #4,082 |
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).