Baby
Baby is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 524th, in 1994.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1994373 births
- Best rank
- #524in 1994
- Since 1919
- 12,403people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,325 boys have been named Baby in the United States since 1919, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1994, with 373 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 373 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1995, and the 1990s alone account for 47%. It has spent 22 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Baby is used for both sexes: 49% of its bearers are girls (6,078), most of them born around 1995.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Baby | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 101 | |
| 1930s | 77 | |
| 1940s | 22 | |
| 1950s | 25 | |
| 1970s | 215 | |
| 1980s | 1,042 | |
| 1990s | 2,952 | |
| 2000s | 1,521 | |
| 2010s | 227 | |
| 2020s | 138 |
In 1994, its biggest year
Baby was the 524th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1994 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Tyler. See all of 1994.
Names that rose and fell with Baby
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Zacherypeak 1993
- Diantepeak 1995
- Deantepeak 1997
- Jordonpeak 1991
- Zacharypeak 1993
- Diontepeak 1993
- Tylorpeak 1993
- Infantpeak 1990
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.