Dabney
- Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194
- Last seen for boys in 2009 at #10,994
- Given to girls 62.8% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1948 · 9 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 391since 1947
Dabney over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | — | |
| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | — | |
| 2018 | — | — | ||
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 | — | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | — | |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | — | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | — | |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | — | |
| 2012 | — | — | ||
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | — | |
| 2010 | — | — | ||
| 2009 | — | #10,994 | 6 | |
| 2008 | — | — | ||
| 2007 | — | — | ||
| 2006 | — | — | ||
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | — | |
| 2004 | — | — | ||
| 2003 | — | — | ||
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 | — | |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | — | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | — | |
| 1999 | — | — | ||
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | — | |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | — | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | — | |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | — | |
| 1994 | — | — | ||
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | — | |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | — | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | — | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | — | |
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | — | |
| 1985 | — | — | ||
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | — | |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,945 | 14 | — | |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | — | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | — | |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,971 | 15 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 | — | |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | — | |
| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | #3,318 | 7 |
| 1962 | #4,865 | 8 | #3,041 | 8 |
| 1961 | — | #3,652 | 6 | |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | — | |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | — | |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | — | |
| 1955 | — | #3,201 | 7 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,592 | 10 | |
| 1953 | #4,226 | 8 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,123 | 8 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 | #2,662 | 9 |
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 | #3,316 | 6 |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | — | |
| 1946 | — | #3,173 | 6 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,996 | 6 | |
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | — | #2,940 | 7 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,656 | 8 | |
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,854 | 7 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,951 | 7 | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | #3,092 | 7 | |
| 1931 | — | #3,390 | 6 | |
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
| 1926 | — | #4,201 | 5 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,588 | 11 | |
| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
| 1923 | — | — | ||
| 1922 | — | #3,014 | 9 | |
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,815 | 6 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,391 | 7 | |
| 1918 | — | — | ||
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
| 1915 | — | — | ||
| 1914 | — | — | ||
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | — | — | ||
| 1911 | — | #1,537 | 6 | |
| 1910 | — | — | ||
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| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | #942 | 6 | |
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | — | ||
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| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
First appearance
1947
The first year at least five girls were named Dabney! It came in at #5,295, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1950, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Dabney is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Dabney in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Dabney
Momentum · girls
Faded out
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
Rise & fade · girls
1 yr to peak
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 1948 at #3,593 (9 births)
- Births halved by 1950, 2 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 97,214
- Highest: 1 in 97,214 girls born in 1973 were named Dabney (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 320,916 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,593 in 1948, was only 1 in 188,656 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1970s
- 20.5% of all girls named Dabney (80) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2011
- Mostly boys until 2010, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 22 | #3,593 (1948) | #4,260 |
| 1950s | 46 | #4,123 (1952) | #5,077 |
| 1960s | 38 | #4,865 (1962) | #5,776 |
| 1970s | 80 | #3,971 (1973) | #5,712 |
| 1980s | 63 | #4,945 (1982) | #8,544 |
| 1990s | 56 | #6,867 (1990) | #11,076 |
| 2000s | 32 | #8,837 (2002) | #11,681 |
| 2010s | 49 | #10,148 (2015) | #13,384 |
| 2020s | 5 | #15,194 (2023) | #15,194 |
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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