Cricket
- #8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births
- Peak · girls
- 1962 · 23 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 641since 1950
Cricket over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Cricket has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 |
| 2014 | #6,987 | 17 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 |
| 1998 | — | |
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| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 |
| 1987 | #4,283 | 19 |
| 1986 | #3,757 | 22 |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 |
| 1982 | #3,418 | 24 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 |
| 1972 | #4,300 | 13 |
| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 |
| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,692 | 13 |
| 1963 | #3,066 | 17 |
| 1962 | #2,539 | 23 |
| 1961 | #3,460 | 14 |
| 1960 | #3,357 | 14 |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 |
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| 1953 | — | |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 |
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First appearance
1950
The first year at least five girls were named Cricket! It came in at #5,301, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1950–1955, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Cricket is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Cricket in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 1,648 spots since 2020 (#7,212 → #8,860)
Rise & fade · girls
12 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 1962 at #2,539 (23 births)
- Births halved by 1965, 3 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 70,555
- Highest: 1 in 70,555 girls born in 1982 were named Cricket (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,539 in 1962, was only 1 in 85,504 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1980s
- 20.9% of all girls named Cricket (134) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 34 | #4,625 (1959) | #5,389 |
| 1960s | 103 | #2,539 (1962) | #4,045 |
| 1970s | 93 | #4,155 (1973) | #6,264 |
| 1980s | 134 | #3,418 (1982) | #5,910 |
| 1990s | 51 | #5,060 (1990) | #10,482 |
| 2000s | 78 | #7,073 (2008) | #11,283 |
| 2010s | 102 | #6,987 (2014) | #10,841 |
| 2020s | 46 | #7,212 (2020) | #9,083 |
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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