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Xanthe: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #5,106 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #5,106 in 1972; #7,468 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Xanthe in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,468 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1972, at #5,106.
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Xanthe: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 girls in 2025. Peak: #5,106 in 1972 · most girls in one year: 15 (2025).
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Xanthe, making it the 7,468th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #5,106, reached in 1972. The most girls given the name in a single year was 15, in 2025. For comparison, it was #16,312 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Xanthe in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 6 babies. In all, 324 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 77 babies named Xanthe.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 53 US girls were named Xanthe; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 107,151 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 | 15 | #7,468 | — | — |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,489 | — | — |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,633 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #12,090 | — | — |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,586 | — | — |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,666 | — | — |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,133 | — | — |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,312 | — | — |
| 2014 | 5 | #19,081 | — | — |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,917 | — | — |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,760 | — | — |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,692 | — | — |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,166 | — | — |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,777 | — | — |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,787 | — | — |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,931 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #19,083 | — | — |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,367 | — | — |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,153 | — | — |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,731 | — | — |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,848 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,867 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,247 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,676 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,752 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,567 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,755 | — | — |
| 1992 | 11 | #8,053 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,246 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,509 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,768 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,219 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,800 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,543 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,491 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,164 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,423 | — | — |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,656 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,106 | — | — |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,997 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,980 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,464 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,517 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,761 | — | — |
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).