Meaning not yet researched.
Tucker: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,008 in 2025. Its best rank was #173 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #173 in 2016; #181 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Tucker in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#181 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #173.
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Tucker: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,008 boys in 2025. Peak: #173 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 2,422 (2014).
In 2025, 2,008 US boys were named Tucker, making it the 181st most common boys’ name of the year, up 19 places from #200 in 2024. That is 223 more than the 1,785 boys named Tucker in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #173, reached in 2016. The most boys given the name in a single year was 2,422, in 2014. For comparison, it was #186 in 2015 and #2,200 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tucker in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 5 babies. In all, 55,554 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 21,397 babies named Tucker.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 20,411 US boys were named Tucker; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,311. In 2025 that was about 1 in 851 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tucker ranked highest in Vermont in 2025, at #46 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 11 states (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Tukker are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tukker (74).
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 Tucker in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 3 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont | 10 | #46 | #121 |
| West Virginia | 28 | #64 | #80 |
| Wyoming | 7 | #70 | #70 |
| Maine | 17 | #73 | #58 |
| Wisconsin | 73 | #78 | #163 |
| Tennessee | 105 | #81 | #97 |
| Kentucky | 58 | #84 | #102 |
| South Dakota | 15 | #84 | #53 |
| North Dakota | 14 | #85 | #78 |
| Iowa | 38 | #98 | #111 |
| Alabama | 55 | #98 | #104 |
| Missouri | 65 | #108 | #93 |
| Arkansas | 31 | #112 | #60 |
| Kansas | 33 | #117 | #108 |
| Oklahoma | 39 | #121 | #92 |
| Montana | 11 | #126 | #79 |
| New Hampshire | 12 | #128 | #128 |
| Minnesota | 51 | #128 | #142 |
| Louisiana | 39 | #130 | #124 |
| Mississippi | 25 | #131 | #130 |
| North Carolina | 95 | #132 | #180 |
| Utah | 40 | #133 | #148 |
| Ohio | 100 | #138 | #141 |
| Idaho | 20 | #142 | #55 |
| Indiana | 57 | #145 | #151 |
| Georgia | 83 | #146 | #135 |
| South Carolina | 39 | #150 | #145 |
| Virginia | 56 | #162 | #147 |
| Michigan | 63 | #163 | #161 |
| Alaska | 6 | #164 | #194 |
| Nebraska | 18 | #165 | #101 |
| Massachusetts | 37 | #183 | #199 |
| Washington | 45 | #194 | #200 |
| Pennsylvania | 65 | #195 | #217 |
| Oregon | 20 | #219 | #130 |
| Maryland | 27 | #220 | #199 |
| Colorado | 29 | #228 | #190 |
| Illinois | 51 | #235 | #227 |
| Delaware | 5 | #241 | #203 |
| Florida | 83 | #249 | #252 |
| Texas | 152 | #260 | #259 |
| Connecticut | 13 | #266 | #227 |
| New York | 59 | #313 | #319 |
| Arizona | 21 | #375 | #317 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #424 | #395 |
| California | 66 | #490 | #412 |
| Nevada | 6 | #509 | #221 |
| New Jersey | 14 | #540 | #620 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,420 | 2,008 | #181 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,515 | 1,785 | #200 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,950 | 1,810 | #205 |
| 2022 | 12 | #9,017 | 1,934 | #197 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,242 | 2,138 | #180 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,902 | 2,013 | #191 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,687 | 2,018 | #196 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,571 | 2,171 | #183 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,785 | 2,223 | #179 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,952 | 2,311 | #173 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,410 | 2,235 | #186 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,284 | 2,422 | #176 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,725 | 2,241 | #179 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,381 | 2,044 | #185 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,342 | 1,840 | #196 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,743 | 1,754 | #204 |
| 2009 | 6 | #17,149 | 1,612 | #226 |
| 2008 | 12 | #10,041 | 1,544 | #238 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,509 | 1,464 | #246 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,366 | 1,312 | #263 |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,090 | 1,224 | #273 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,853 | 1,107 | #287 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,763 | 1,040 | #295 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,254 | 999 | #296 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,320 | 1,041 | #287 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,553 | 1,047 | #288 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,294 | 971 | #296 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,570 | 920 | #306 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,776 | 902 | #302 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,377 | 803 | #326 |
| 1995 | — | — | 709 | #348 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,587 | 694 | #352 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,504 | 601 | #384 |
| 1992 | — | — | 498 | #443 |
| 1991 | — | — | 488 | #446 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,350 | 434 | #475 |
| 1989 | — | — | 371 | #497 |
| 1988 | — | — | 228 | #630 |
| 1987 | — | — | 142 | #775 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,493 | 111 | #865 |
| 1985 | — | — | 141 | #751 |
| 1984 | — | — | 149 | #714 |
| 1983 | — | — | 123 | #790 |
| 1982 | — | — | 97 | #912 |
| 1981 | — | — | 87 | #970 |
| 1980 | — | — | 103 | #888 |
| 1979 | — | — | 82 | #983 |
| 1978 | — | — | 80 | #968 |
| 1977 | — | — | 68 | #1,053 |
| 1976 | — | — | 64 | #1,048 |
| 1975 | — | — | 61 | #1,082 |
| 1974 | — | — | 40 | #1,367 |
| 1973 | — | — | 29 | #1,651 |
| 1972 | — | — | 40 | #1,346 |
| 1971 | — | — | 37 | #1,413 |
| 1970 | — | — | 25 | #1,791 |
| 1969 | — | — | 24 | #1,721 |
| 1968 | — | — | 21 | #1,782 |
| 1967 | — | — | 30 | #1,408 |
| 1966 | — | — | 25 | #1,575 |
| 1965 | — | — | 26 | #1,553 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #3,035 |
| 1963 | — | — | 15 | #2,195 |
| 1962 | — | — | 18 | #1,955 |
| 1961 | — | — | 16 | #2,141 |
| 1960 | — | — | 14 | #2,307 |
| 1959 | — | — | 8 | #3,271 |
| 1958 | — | — | 23 | #1,675 |
| 1957 | — | — | 16 | #2,084 |
| 1956 | — | — | 15 | #2,164 |
| 1955 | — | — | 21 | #1,723 |
| 1954 | — | — | 10 | #2,727 |
| 1953 | — | — | 9 | #2,890 |
| 1952 | — | — | 12 | #2,370 |
| 1951 | — | — | 16 | #1,965 |
| 1950 | — | — | 13 | #2,200 |
| 1949 | — | — | 16 | #1,937 |
| 1948 | — | — | 11 | #2,431 |
| 1947 | — | — | 17 | #1,911 |
| 1946 | — | — | 24 | #1,471 |
| 1945 | — | — | 7 | #2,978 |
| 1944 | — | — | 14 | #1,982 |
| 1943 | — | — | 8 | #2,948 |
| 1942 | — | — | 14 | #2,037 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,637 |
| 1940 | — | — | 9 | #2,657 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,462 |
| 1938 | — | — | 7 | #3,153 |
| 1937 | — | — | 10 | #2,470 |
| 1936 | — | — | 8 | #2,837 |
| 1935 | — | — | 16 | #1,828 |
| 1934 | — | — | 12 | #2,254 |
| 1933 | — | — | 8 | #2,987 |
| 1932 | — | — | 8 | #3,073 |
| 1931 | — | — | 10 | #2,637 |
| 1930 | — | — | 7 | #3,572 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,922 |
| 1928 | — | — | 7 | #3,674 |
| 1927 | — | — | 9 | #3,131 |
| 1926 | — | — | 9 | #3,124 |
| 1925 | — | — | 11 | #2,741 |
| 1924 | — | — | 13 | #2,460 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,832 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,904 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,787 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,755 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,349 |
| 1917 | — | — | 9 | #2,936 |
| 1916 | — | — | 11 | #2,526 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,812 |
| 1914 | — | — | 10 | #2,258 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,226 |
| 1912 | — | — | 8 | #2,035 |
| 1909 | — | — | 6 | #1,427 |
| 1894 | — | — | 5 | #1,222 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #1,113 |
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).