Apple

Peak · girls
2005 · 44 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
475
since 1971

Apple over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Apple has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #3,404, 2005girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#9,45710
2024#15,2935
2023#8,48612
2022#11,2318
2021#7,63014
2020#6,92316
2019#7,02516
2018#12,4647
2017#11,6158
2016#8,87512
2015#8,00814
2014#6,45119
2013#4,88728
2012#5,39825
2011#5,35825
2010#5,41425
2009#4,48233
2008#5,01329
2007#3,78642
2006#5,08627
2005#3,40444
2004#9,89210
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1980#10,3925
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1974#7,6806
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1971#6,6197
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First appearance
1971

The first year at least five girls were named Apple! It came in at #6,619, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1972–1973, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Apple is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Apple in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

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Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 5,836 spots since 2024 (#15,293 → #9,457)
  • 2,534 spots since 2020 (#6,923 → #9,457)
  • 1,449 spots since 2015 (#8,008 → #9,457)
Rise & fade · girls
34 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1971
  • Peaked 2005 at #3,404 (44 births)
  • Births halved by 2014, 9 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 41,996
  • Highest: 1 in 41,996 girls born in 2005 were named Apple (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 38.9% of all girls named Apple (185) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s24#6,619 (1971)#7,788
1980s5#10,392 (1980)#10,392
1990s17#11,738 (1992)#12,546
2000s185#3,404 (2005)#5,277
2010s179#4,887 (2013)#7,550
2020s65#6,923 (2020)#9,837

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.

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