Acacia

#2,485 for girls in 2025, 71 births

Peak · girls
1998 · 135 births
Debut · girls
16 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
4,310
since 1971

Acacia over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Acacia has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201972peak #1,312, 1998girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#2,48571
2024#2,72263
2023#2,82360
2022#2,55469
2021#2,63865
2020#2,21681
2019#2,35576
2018#2,15987
2017#2,08793
2016#2,18888
2015#1,950103
2014#2,09692
2013#2,30580
2012#2,37378
2011#1,968100
2010#2,20288
2009#1,947107
2008#1,740127
2007#2,015101
2006#1,761118
2005#2,07390
2004#1,601122
2003#1,561123
2002#1,351143
2001#1,506124
2000#1,356138
1999#1,341132
1998#1,312135
1997#1,343128
1996#1,384121
1995#1,492106
1994#1,346124
1993#1,419114
1992#1,422114
1991#1,64291
1990#1,71685
1989#1,65183
1988#1,89165
1987#1,74868
1986#1,81662
1985#2,08251
1984#1,86657
1983#3,15126
1982#2,70434
1981#2,61435
1980#2,80032
1979#2,67133
1978#3,63720
1977#4,94213
1976#2,86526
1975#3,95016
1974#4,22714
1973#3,97115
1972#6,5587
1971#3,78916
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First appearance
1971

The first year at least five girls were named Acacia! It came in at #3,789, and was given to 16 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1972, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.

Where Acacia is popular in 1972

No state had 5 or more girls named Acacia in 1972, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Acacia
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 237 spots since 2024 (#2,722 → #2,485)
  • 269 spots since 2020 (#2,216 → #2,485)
  • 535 spots since 2015 (#1,950 → #2,485)
Rise & fade · girls
27 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1971
  • Peaked 1998 at #1,312 (135 births)
  • Births halved by 2021, 23 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 12,566
  • Highest: 1 in 12,566 girls born in 2002 were named Acacia (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 22,638 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,312 in 1998, was only 1 in 13,089 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 27.7% of all girls named Acacia (1,193) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s160#2,671 (1979)#4,068
1980s513#1,651 (1989)#2,232
1990s1,150#1,312 (1998)#1,442
2000s1,193#1,351 (2002)#1,691
2010s885#1,950 (2015)#2,168
2020s409#2,216 (2020)#2,573

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Acacia in 1972

girls
#6,558
7 births · 1 in 217,321 girls

Top girls' names in 1972

  1. #1Jennifer63,600
  2. #2Michelle29,285
  3. #3Lisa27,543
  4. #4Kimberly26,282
  5. #5Amy25,873
  6. #6Angela23,561
  7. #7Melissa22,494
  8. #8Stephanie16,890
  9. #9Heather16,320
  10. #10Nicole15,755
  11. #6,558Acacia7
More about 1972

girls

1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 217,321 of them was named Acacia, which outranked 32.2% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Acacia
  1. #5,959Zoie8
  2. #5,959Zona8
  3. #5,959Zuleika8
  4. #6,558Acacia7
  5. #6,558Acquanetta7
  6. #6,558Adel7
  7. #6,558Adenike7
  8. #7,292Adonia6
  9. #7,292Afua6
  10. #7,292Aggie6

Tied with 733 names at #6,558; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1971
Risers
  1. ↑ 5,804Camisha#6,619 → #815
  2. ↑ 3,921Catina#4,123 → #202
  3. ↑ 1,842Cherilyn#2,665 → #823
  4. ↑ 1,789Chasity#2,542 → #753
  5. ↑ 1,694Keena#2,542 → #848
Fallers
  1. ↓ 517Shayla#836 → #1,353
  2. ↓ 428Raina#798 → #1,226
  3. ↓ 280Kendall#742 → #1,022
  4. ↓ 275Alycia#951 → #1,226
  5. ↓ 255Charisse#727 → #982

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1972 →