Bear
#853 for boys in 2025, 286 births
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 332 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,356since 1975
Bear over time
Rank among boys' names. Bear has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #853 | 286 |
| 2024 | #826 | 302 |
| 2023 | #820 | 299 |
| 2022 | #760 | 332 |
| 2021 | #827 | 288 |
| 2020 | #899 | 250 |
| 2019 | #897 | 244 |
| 2018 | #998 | 207 |
| 2017 | #1,020 | 198 |
| 2016 | #1,055 | 187 |
| 2015 | #1,317 | 134 |
| 2014 | #1,329 | 131 |
| 2013 | #1,709 | 86 |
| 2012 | #1,849 | 79 |
| 2011 | #1,730 | 85 |
| 2010 | #2,354 | 54 |
| 2009 | #2,348 | 55 |
| 2008 | #2,583 | 48 |
| 2007 | #4,127 | 24 |
| 2006 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #7,096 | 10 |
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| 2003 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #9,112 | 6 |
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| 1997 | #8,110 | 6 |
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| 1994 | #8,800 | 5 |
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| 1981 | #6,262 | 5 |
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| 1975 | #4,797 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bear! It came in at #4,797, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1976–1996, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Bear is popular in 1975
No state had 5 or more boys named Bear in 1975, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Bear
- 27 spots since 2024 (#826 → #853)
- 46 spots since 2020 (#899 → #853)
- 464 spots since 2015 (#1,317 → #853)
- Biggest jump: 101 spots in 2019 (#998 → #897)
- Biggest drop: 60 spots in 2023 (#760 → #820)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2022 at #760 (332 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 2018–2025
- Highest: 1 in 5,259 boys born in 2022 were named Bear (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,972 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 52.4% of all boys named Bear (1,757) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #4,797 (1975) | #4,797 |
| 1980s | 5 | #6,262 (1981) | #6,262 |
| 1990s | 11 | #8,110 (1997) | #8,455 |
| 2000s | 172 | #2,348 (2009) | #6,619 |
| 2010s | 1,405 | #897 (2019) | #1,426 |
| 2020s | 1,757 | #760 (2022) | #831 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Bear in 1975
Top boys' names in 1975
More about 1975
boys
1,561,357 boys got a published name in 1975; 1 in 260,226 of them was named Bear, which outranked 24.3% of the 6,337 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).