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 |
| 2004 | — | |
| 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 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Arkansas#329 · 1 in 1,257
- Idaho#354 · 1 in 1,318
- Oregon#395 · 1 in 1,643
- Connecticut#422 · 1 in 2,206
- Colorado#489 · 1 in 2,256
Best ever in a state: #302 in Idaho, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | #329 | 10 | 1 in 1,257 |
| Idaho | #354 | 6 | 1 in 1,318 |
| Oregon | #395 | 9 | 1 in 1,643 |
| Connecticut | #422 | 6 | 1 in 2,206 |
| Colorado | #489 | 11 | 1 in 2,256 |
| Nevada | #505 | 5 | 1 in 2,205 |
| Oklahoma | #510 | 8 | 1 in 2,189 |
| Tennessee | #510 | 14 | 1 in 2,552 |
| Iowa | #560 | 5 | 1 in 2,669 |
| Utah | #564 | 7 | 1 in 2,625 |
| Arizona | #635 | 9 | 1 in 3,611 |
| Kentucky | #673 | 5 | 1 in 3,962 |
| Indiana | #708 | 8 | 1 in 3,950 |
| South Carolina | #727 | 5 | 1 in 4,084 |
| Pennsylvania | #730 | 11 | 1 in 4,729 |
| Washington | #730 | 8 | 1 in 3,957 |
| Alabama | #771 | 5 | 1 in 4,378 |
| Louisiana | #819 | 5 | 1 in 4,086 |
| California | #827 | 30 | 1 in 5,996 |
| Missouri | #833 | 5 | 1 in 5,370 |
| Ohio | #862 | 9 | 1 in 5,831 |
| Virginia | #947 | 6 | 1 in 6,208 |
| Georgia | #985 | 8 | 1 in 6,299 |
| Michigan | #999 | 6 | 1 in 6,694 |
| Texas | #999 | 23 | 1 in 7,713 |
| Florida | #1,004 | 13 | 1 in 7,248 |
| North Carolina | #1,029 | 7 | 1 in 7,246 |
| Illinois | #1,285 | 5 | 1 in 10,032 |
| New York | #1,583 | 6 | 1 in 14,295 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 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 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 5,721 of them was named Bear, which outranked 94.2% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).