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Ugochukwu: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,781 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4,781 in 2004; #9,637 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ugochukwu in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,637 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #4,781.
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Ugochukwu: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #4,781 in 2004 · most boys in one year: 18 (2004).
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Ugochukwu, making it the 9,637th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,607 places from #12,244 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 6 boys named Ugochukwu in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,781, reached in 2004. That year also had the most boys given the name: 18. For comparison, it was #7,997 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ugochukwu in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 5 babies. In all, 296 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 85 babies named Ugochukwu.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 61 US boys were named Ugochukwu; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 8. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 8 | #9,637 |
| 2024 | — | — | 6 | #12,244 |
| 2023 | — | — | 5 | #14,031 |
| 2022 | — | — | 6 | #12,211 |
| 2021 | — | — | 8 | #9,628 |
| 2019 | — | — | 7 | #10,727 |
| 2018 | — | — | 7 | #10,674 |
| 2017 | — | — | 8 | #9,625 |
| 2016 | — | — | 6 | #12,069 |
| 2015 | — | — | 10 | #7,997 |
| 2014 | — | — | 7 | #10,635 |
| 2013 | — | — | 10 | #8,065 |
| 2012 | — | — | 13 | #6,608 |
| 2011 | — | — | 9 | #8,711 |
| 2010 | — | — | 8 | #9,623 |
| 2009 | — | — | 9 | #8,943 |
| 2008 | — | — | 9 | #8,972 |
| 2007 | — | — | 8 | #9,730 |
| 2005 | — | — | 7 | #10,088 |
| 2004 | — | — | 18 | #4,781 |
| 2003 | — | — | 10 | #7,215 |
| 2002 | — | — | 12 | #6,063 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #10,476 |
| 1999 | — | — | 12 | #5,634 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #8,422 |
| 1997 | — | — | 13 | #4,940 |
| 1996 | — | — | 9 | #6,469 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #10,253 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,430 |
| 1993 | — | — | 9 | #6,197 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #7,367 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #8,065 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #8,081 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #7,284 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #7,285 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #7,232 |
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).