In 2025, 9 US boys were named Utah, making it the 8,857th most common boys’ name of the year, up 947 places from #9,804 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 8 boys named Utah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,760, reached in 1921. That year also had the most boys given the name: 21. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Utah in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 7 babies. In all, 392 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 131 babies named Utah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 50 US boys were named Utah; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 9. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.