Babygirl
#6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births · Last seen for boys in 1990 at #7,178
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1991 · 107 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,069since 1979
Babygirl over time
Rank among girls' names. Babygirl 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 | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,838 | 16 | — | |
| 2024 | #4,387 | 32 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,585 | 43 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,536 | 44 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,801 | 39 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,078 | 34 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 | — | |
| 2018 | #4,768 | 28 | — | |
| 2017 | #5,517 | 23 | — | |
| 2016 | #6,186 | 20 | — | |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 | — | |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | — | |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 | — | |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 | — | |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 | — | |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | — | |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | — | |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | — | |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | — | |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,314 | 77 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,972 | 94 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,019 | 89 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,004 | 87 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,686 | 107 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,689 | 104 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,738 | 92 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,762 | 89 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,784 | 84 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,084 | 66 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,802 | 79 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,583 | 96 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,942 | 72 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,855 | 76 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,478 | 107 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,974 | 69 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #1,834 | 72 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,822 | 68 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,098 | 52 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,973 | 31 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 | — | |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | — | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | — | |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Babygirl! It came in at #10,210, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1982, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Babygirl is popular in 1988
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Connecticut#227 · 1 in 1,442
- California#1,508 · 1 in 17,572
- New York#1,614 · 1 in 19,009
Best ever in a state: #85 in District of Columbia, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Connecticut | #227 | 13 | 1 in 1,442 |
| California | #1,508 | 13 | 1 in 17,572 |
| New York | #1,614 | 6 | 1 in 19,009 |
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See more about Babygirl
- 2,451 spots since 2024 (#4,387 → #6,838)
- 2,760 spots since 2020 (#4,078 → #6,838)
- 117 spots since 2015 (#6,721 → #6,838)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 1991 at #1,478 (107 births)
- Births halved by 2006, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,828 girls born in 2001 were named Babygirl (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,454 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,478 in 1991, was only 1 in 17,523 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.1% of all girls named Babygirl (830) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #10,210 (1979) | #10,210 |
| 1980s | 254 | #1,822 (1988) | #5,126 |
| 1990s | 830 | #1,478 (1991) | #1,800 |
| 2000s | 598 | #1,686 (2001) | #5,502 |
| 2010s | 174 | #4,768 (2018) | #7,554 |
| 2020s | 208 | #3,536 (2022) | #4,371 |
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.
Babygirl in 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 26,189 of them was named Babygirl, which outranked 86.9% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,802Shaunte69
- #1,802Tressa69
- #1,802Yazmin69
- #1,822Babygirl68
- #1,822Ashanti68
- #1,822Charisse68
- #1,822Dinah68
- #1,839Ainsley67
- #1,839Annalise67
- #1,839Carlyn67
Tied with 16 names at #1,822; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.