Infant
Infant is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 389th, in 1990.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1990596 births
- Best rank
- #389in 1990
- Since 1983
- 8,096people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,206 boys have been named Infant in the United States since 1983, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1990, with 596 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 596 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1995, and the 1990s alone account for 64%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Infant is used for both sexes: 48% of its bearers are girls (3,890), most of them born around 1990.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1990, its biggest year
Infant was the 389th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1990 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 1990.
Names that rose and fell with Infant
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Codiepeak 1993
- Codeypeak 1992
- Tylorpeak 1993
- Shaquanpeak 1994
- Zacherypeak 1993
- Babypeak 1994
- Najeepeak 1993
- Codypeak 1992
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.