Bowie
Bowie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 167 births. Its best rank was 951st, in 2021.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1670.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2021237 births
- Best rank
- #951in 2021
- Since 1920
- 3,238people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,070 boys have been named Bowie in the United States since 1920, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 237 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2021, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2019, and the 2020s alone account for 47%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Bowie is used for both sexes: 36% of its bearers are girls (1,168), most of them born around 2021.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2021, its biggest year
Bowie was the 951st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2021 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and James. See all of 2021.
Names that rose and fell with Bowie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shivanshpeak 2019
- Kassiuspeak 2022
- Huxleypeak 2020
- Kaisonpeak 2020
- Hendrixpeak 2022
- Kaiserpeak 2022
- Revanpeak 2021
- Matiaspeak 2024
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.