Spencer
Spencer is ranked 388th among boys in 2024 (840 births). Its best rank was 84th, in 1998.
- Rank in 2024
- #388down 26 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 8400.05% of boys
- Peak year
- 19984,619 births
- Best rank
- #84in 1998
- Since 1880
- 128,474people given the name
The story in the numbers
123,013 boys have been named Spencer in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 4,619 births — 0.24% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 248 → 388).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 1990s alone account for 31%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 6 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 5,461 girls have also been given it, 4.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Spencer | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 313 | |
| 1890s | 309 | |
| 1900s | 396 | |
| 1910s | 1,373 | |
| 1920s | 1,866 | |
| 1930s | 1,786 | |
| 1940s | 3,037 | |
| 1950s | 3,154 | |
| 1960s | 4,416 | |
| 1970s | 6,899 | |
| 1980s | 15,183 | |
| 1990s | 38,183 | |
| 2000s | 27,452 | |
| 2010s | 13,821 | |
| 2020s | 4,825 |
In 1998, its biggest year
Spencer was the 84th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1998 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Spencer
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Garrettpeak 2000
- Jacobpeak 1998
- Dariuspeak 1994
- Tyreepeak 1998
- Tyrepeak 1999
- Nestorpeak 1991
- Luizpeak 2000
- Deandrepeak 1994
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.