Acacia
#2,485 for girls in 2025, 71 births
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 135 births
- Debut · girls
- 16 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,310since 1971
Acacia over time
Rank among girls' names. Acacia has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,485 | 71 |
| 2024 | #2,722 | 63 |
| 2023 | #2,823 | 60 |
| 2022 | #2,554 | 69 |
| 2021 | #2,638 | 65 |
| 2020 | #2,216 | 81 |
| 2019 | #2,355 | 76 |
| 2018 | #2,159 | 87 |
| 2017 | #2,087 | 93 |
| 2016 | #2,188 | 88 |
| 2015 | #1,950 | 103 |
| 2014 | #2,096 | 92 |
| 2013 | #2,305 | 80 |
| 2012 | #2,373 | 78 |
| 2011 | #1,968 | 100 |
| 2010 | #2,202 | 88 |
| 2009 | #1,947 | 107 |
| 2008 | #1,740 | 127 |
| 2007 | #2,015 | 101 |
| 2006 | #1,761 | 118 |
| 2005 | #2,073 | 90 |
| 2004 | #1,601 | 122 |
| 2003 | #1,561 | 123 |
| 2002 | #1,351 | 143 |
| 2001 | #1,506 | 124 |
| 2000 | #1,356 | 138 |
| 1999 | #1,341 | 132 |
| 1998 | #1,312 | 135 |
| 1997 | #1,343 | 128 |
| 1996 | #1,384 | 121 |
| 1995 | #1,492 | 106 |
| 1994 | #1,346 | 124 |
| 1993 | #1,419 | 114 |
| 1992 | #1,422 | 114 |
| 1991 | #1,642 | 91 |
| 1990 | #1,716 | 85 |
| 1989 | #1,651 | 83 |
| 1988 | #1,891 | 65 |
| 1987 | #1,748 | 68 |
| 1986 | #1,816 | 62 |
| 1985 | #2,082 | 51 |
| 1984 | #1,866 | 57 |
| 1983 | #3,151 | 26 |
| 1982 | #2,704 | 34 |
| 1981 | #2,614 | 35 |
| 1980 | #2,800 | 32 |
| 1979 | #2,671 | 33 |
| 1978 | #3,637 | 20 |
| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 |
| 1976 | #2,865 | 26 |
| 1975 | #3,950 | 16 |
| 1974 | #4,227 | 14 |
| 1973 | #3,971 | 15 |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 |
| 1971 | #3,789 | 16 |
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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 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#170 · 1 in 543
- Kansas#537 · 1 in 2,690
- Utah#627 · 1 in 3,519
- Colorado#647 · 1 in 3,549
- Wisconsin#709 · 1 in 4,973
Best ever in a state: #170 in Hawaii, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Hawaii | #170 | 6 | 1 in 543 |
| Kansas | #537 | 5 | 1 in 2,690 |
| Utah | #627 | 5 | 1 in 3,519 |
| Colorado | #647 | 7 | 1 in 3,549 |
| Wisconsin | #709 | 5 | 1 in 4,973 |
| Arizona | #920 | 6 | 1 in 5,410 |
| Ohio | #1,112 | 6 | 1 in 9,700 |
| Georgia | #1,140 | 6 | 1 in 8,068 |
| Michigan | #1,183 | 5 | 1 in 9,755 |
| California | #1,563 | 15 | 1 in 14,848 |
| Texas | #2,768 | 5 | 1 in 31,189 |
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See more about Acacia
- 237 spots since 2024 (#2,722 → #2,485)
- 269 spots since 2020 (#2,216 → #2,485)
- 535 spots since 2015 (#1,950 → #2,485)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1998 at #1,312 (135 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 23 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 27.7% of all girls named Acacia (1,193) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 160 | #2,671 (1979) | #4,068 |
| 1980s | 513 | #1,651 (1989) | #2,232 |
| 1990s | 1,150 | #1,312 (1998) | #1,442 |
| 2000s | 1,193 | #1,351 (2002) | #1,691 |
| 2010s | 885 | #1,950 (2015) | #2,168 |
| 2020s | 409 | #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 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 12,566 of them was named Acacia, which outranked 92.5% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,345Lacie144
- #1,345Nelly144
- #1,345Terri144
- #1,351Acacia143
- #1,351Arden143
- #1,351Eleni143
- #1,351Fallon143
- #1,363Amirah142
- #1,363Cortney142
- #1,363Jessenia142
Tied with 11 names at #1,351; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.