Unique
Unique is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 86 births. Its best rank was 790th, in 1996.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 860.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2009292 births
- Best rank
- #790in 1996
- Since 1972
- 8,446people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,539 girls have been named Unique in the United States since 1972, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 292 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2003, and the 2000s alone account for 33%. It has spent 10 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 907 boys have also been given it, 11% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2009, its biggest year
Unique was the 922nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2009 were Isabella, Emma, Olivia, Sophia and Ava. See all of 2009.
Names that rose and fell with Unique
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Aleapeak 2000
- Keilahpeak 2005
- Daysipeak 1996
- Klarissapeak 1998
- Jamirapeak 2006
- Kallipeak 2007
- Janaipeak 2006
- Kailinpeak 1997
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.