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Whisper: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,022 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,022 in 1996; #13,112 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Whisper in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,112 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #3,022.
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Whisper: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,022 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 40 (1996).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Whisper, making it the 13,112th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,035 places from #15,147 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 6 girls named Whisper in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,022, reached in 1996. That year also had the most girls given the name: 40. For comparison, it was #10,110 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Whisper in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 5 babies. In all, 792 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 247 babies named Whisper.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 98 US girls were named Whisper; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls 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 | 7 | #13,112 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,147 | — | — |
| 2023 | 14 | #8,031 | — | — |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,644 | — | — |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,389 | — | — |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,984 | — | — |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,440 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,777 | — | — |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,520 | — | — |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,249 | — | — |
| 2015 | 11 | #10,110 | — | — |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,621 | — | — |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,585 | — | — |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,128 | — | — |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,763 | — | — |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,624 | — | — |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,797 | — | — |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,270 | — | — |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,988 | — | — |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,114 | — | — |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,125 | — | — |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,201 | — | — |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,726 | — | — |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,614 | — | — |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,682 | — | — |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,180 | — | — |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,966 | — | — |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,912 | — | — |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,159 | — | — |
| 1996 | 40 | #3,022 | — | — |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,083 | — | — |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,109 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,709 | — | — |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,645 | — | — |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,243 | — | — |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,455 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,821 | — | — |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,272 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,338 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,504 | — | — |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,855 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,130 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #9,001 | — | — |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,878 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #9,090 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,992 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,303 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,265 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #9,044 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,778 | — | — |
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).