Bambi
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births
- Peak · girls
- 1979 · 327 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,261since 1943
Bambi over time
Rank among girls' names. Bambi has never cracked the top 500 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 | #6,546 | 17 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 |
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| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 |
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| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 |
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| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 |
| 1990 | #4,694 | 20 |
| 1989 | #3,330 | 31 |
| 1988 | #3,893 | 23 |
| 1987 | #2,780 | 35 |
| 1986 | #2,903 | 32 |
| 1985 | #1,809 | 62 |
| 1984 | #1,535 | 74 |
| 1983 | #1,230 | 103 |
| 1982 | #934 | 160 |
| 1981 | #795 | 203 |
| 1980 | #577 | 322 |
| 1979 | #562 | 327 |
| 1978 | #744 | 209 |
| 1977 | #721 | 214 |
| 1976 | #1,043 | 118 |
| 1975 | #1,083 | 108 |
| 1974 | #1,133 | 102 |
| 1973 | #1,286 | 80 |
| 1972 | #1,394 | 71 |
| 1971 | #1,488 | 68 |
| 1970 | #1,599 | 59 |
| 1969 | #1,325 | 73 |
| 1968 | #1,459 | 60 |
| 1967 | #1,360 | 65 |
| 1966 | #1,057 | 98 |
| 1965 | #1,079 | 94 |
| 1964 | #932 | 127 |
| 1963 | #814 | 162 |
| 1962 | #765 | 185 |
| 1961 | #783 | 179 |
| 1960 | #637 | 251 |
| 1959 | #641 | 241 |
| 1958 | #676 | 214 |
| 1957 | #653 | 227 |
| 1956 | #648 | 217 |
| 1955 | #768 | 155 |
| 1954 | #940 | 105 |
| 1953 | #1,103 | 77 |
| 1952 | #2,327 | 20 |
| 1951 | #4,011 | 8 |
| 1950 | #3,235 | 11 |
| 1949 | #3,612 | 9 |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 |
| 1947 | #2,637 | 15 |
| 1946 | #3,034 | 11 |
| 1945 | #3,132 | 9 |
| 1944 | #3,687 | 7 |
| 1943 | #3,493 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Bambi! It came in at #3,493, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1997–2004, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Bambi is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Idaho#269 · 1 in 1,337
- Oregon#315 · 1 in 1,931
- Oklahoma#325 · 1 in 1,889
- Utah#395 · 1 in 2,528
- Wisconsin#399 · 1 in 3,621
Best ever in a state: #175 in Maine, 1979.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | #269 | 5 | 1 in 1,337 |
| Oregon | #315 | 8 | 1 in 1,931 |
| Oklahoma | #325 | 9 | 1 in 1,889 |
| Utah | #395 | 6 | 1 in 2,528 |
| Wisconsin | #399 | 8 | 1 in 3,621 |
| Colorado | #418 | 6 | 1 in 2,883 |
| Georgia | #444 | 11 | 1 in 2,932 |
| Alabama | #461 | 7 | 1 in 3,107 |
| Washington | #515 | 6 | 1 in 3,824 |
| Pennsylvania | #525 | 13 | 1 in 5,077 |
| North Carolina | #553 | 7 | 1 in 4,624 |
| Indiana | #591 | 6 | 1 in 5,799 |
| Florida | #607 | 10 | 1 in 4,402 |
| Louisiana | #669 | 6 | 1 in 4,586 |
| Ohio | #685 | 9 | 1 in 7,662 |
| Michigan | #853 | 6 | 1 in 9,592 |
| Texas | #882 | 13 | 1 in 7,953 |
| New York | #1,070 | 9 | 1 in 10,925 |
| California | #1,109 | 14 | 1 in 10,952 |
| Illinois | #1,232 | 5 | 1 in 14,181 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Bambi
- 3,725 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #6,546)
- Biggest jump: 322 spots in 1977 (#1,043 → #721)
- Biggest drop: 296 spots in 1983 (#934 → #1,230)
- Debuted 1943
- Peaked 1979 at #562 (327 births)
- Births halved by 1982, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 1954–1964
- Highest: 1 in 4,909 girls born in 1979 were named Bambi (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 25.8% of all girls named Bambi (1,356) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 65 | #2,637 (1947) | #3,464 |
| 1950s | 1,275 | #641 (1959) | #1,500 |
| 1960s | 1,294 | #637 (1960) | #1,021 |
| 1970s | 1,356 | #562 (1979) | #1,105 |
| 1980s | 1,045 | #577 (1980) | #1,979 |
| 1990s | 92 | #4,694 (1990) | #10,056 |
| 2000s | 30 | #11,834 (2005) | #14,516 |
| 2010s | 44 | #10,473 (2019) | #14,179 |
| 2020s | 60 | #6,546 (2025) | #8,830 |
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.
Bambi in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 7,329 of them was named Bambi, which outranked 93.5% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).