Meaning not yet researched.
Unique: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 73 in 2025. Its best rank was #790 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #790 in 1996; #2,456 in 2025. About 61% of babies named Unique in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,456 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #790.
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Unique: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 73 girls in 2025. Peak: #790 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 292 (2009).
In 2025, 73 US girls were named Unique, making it the 2,456th most common girls’ name of the year, down 280 places from #2,176 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 88 girls named Unique in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #790, reached in 1996. The most girls given the name in a single year was 292, in 2009. For comparison, it was #1,564 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 46 US boys were named Unique, making it the 2,792nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 158 places from #2,634 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 51 boys named Unique in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,394, reached in 1997. The most boys given the name in a single year was 51, in 2024. For comparison, it was #7,460 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Unique in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 6 babies. In all, 8,569 US babies have been given the name, 89% of them girls and 11% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,766 babies named Unique.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,086 US girls were named Unique; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 127. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,017 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Unique ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #979 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Uniqua, Uniquia and Uniquea are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Uniqua (488), Uniquia (25), Uniquea (19), Unyque (12).
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 Unique in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 10 | #979 | #1,756 |
| Indiana | 6 | #1,023 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,391 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,871 | #1,116 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 73 | #2,456 | 46 | #2,792 |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,176 | 51 | #2,634 |
| 2023 | 104 | #1,920 | 33 | #3,558 |
| 2022 | 101 | #1,960 | 24 | #4,428 |
| 2021 | 126 | #1,665 | 14 | #6,315 |
| 2020 | 121 | #1,697 | 11 | #7,463 |
| 2019 | 114 | #1,799 | 14 | #6,384 |
| 2018 | 113 | #1,812 | 10 | #8,110 |
| 2017 | 127 | #1,696 | 11 | #7,502 |
| 2016 | 119 | #1,755 | 10 | #8,104 |
| 2015 | 141 | #1,564 | 11 | #7,460 |
| 2014 | 151 | #1,484 | 16 | #5,708 |
| 2013 | 147 | #1,508 | 17 | #5,383 |
| 2012 | 213 | #1,156 | 10 | #8,098 |
| 2011 | 221 | #1,119 | 15 | #5,924 |
| 2010 | 230 | #1,091 | 17 | #5,460 |
| 2009 | 292 | #922 | 18 | #5,307 |
| 2008 | 233 | #1,112 | 21 | #4,699 |
| 2007 | 226 | #1,140 | 24 | #4,237 |
| 2006 | 239 | #1,067 | 30 | #3,521 |
| 2005 | 268 | #930 | 21 | #4,319 |
| 2004 | 234 | #1,013 | 32 | #3,154 |
| 2003 | 221 | #1,037 | 32 | #3,040 |
| 2002 | 243 | #921 | 38 | #2,602 |
| 2001 | 272 | #842 | 37 | #2,615 |
| 2000 | 248 | #890 | 37 | #2,574 |
| 1999 | 259 | #836 | 35 | #2,557 |
| 1998 | 245 | #865 | 32 | #2,647 |
| 1997 | 253 | #819 | 35 | #2,394 |
| 1996 | 264 | #790 | 31 | #2,533 |
| 1995 | 215 | #885 | 23 | #3,098 |
| 1994 | 172 | #1,060 | 24 | #3,027 |
| 1993 | 185 | #1,004 | 18 | #3,655 |
| 1992 | 179 | #1,041 | 30 | #2,462 |
| 1991 | 144 | #1,204 | 16 | #3,805 |
| 1990 | 123 | #1,324 | 8 | #6,376 |
| 1989 | 137 | #1,195 | 27 | #2,466 |
| 1988 | 103 | #1,383 | 14 | #3,697 |
| 1987 | 93 | #1,423 | 12 | #3,944 |
| 1986 | 80 | #1,538 | 5 | #7,766 |
| 1985 | 75 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,811 | 8 | #4,947 |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,883 | 8 | #4,877 |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,531 | 9 | #4,570 |
| 1981 | 52 | #2,026 | — | — |
| 1980 | 51 | #2,067 | 7 | #5,499 |
| 1979 | 60 | #1,813 | — | — |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,855 | 7 | #5,032 |
| 1977 | 37 | #2,422 | — | — |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,354 | 5 | #6,467 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,590 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,185 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,238 | — | — |
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).