Day
- #14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Given to girls 53.9% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1955 · 10 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 166since 1942
Day 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 | #14,942 | 5 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | — | |
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | — | — | ||
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | — | |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | — | |
| 2015 | — | #12,086 | 5 | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | — | |
| 2013 | — | — | ||
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | — | |
| 2011 | — | — | ||
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | — | |
| 2009 | — | #12,491 | 5 | |
| 2008 | — | — | ||
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | — | |
| 2006 | — | — | ||
| 2005 | — | — | ||
| 2004 | — | — | ||
| 2003 | — | — | ||
| 2002 | — | — | ||
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | — | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | — | |
| 1999 | — | — | ||
| 1998 | — | — | ||
| 1997 | — | — | ||
| 1996 | — | — | ||
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
| 1994 | — | — | ||
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| 1992 | — | — | ||
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
| 1990 | — | — | ||
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| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
| 1985 | — | — | ||
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| 1982 | — | — | ||
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | — | |
| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 | — | |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #5,011 | 11 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,586 | 12 | — | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | — | |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 | — | |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | — | |
| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
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| 1955 | #3,778 | 10 | — | |
| 1954 | — | #3,452 | 6 | |
| 1953 | — | — | ||
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| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | #3,430 | 5 | |
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 | #3,560 | 5 |
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
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| 1932 | — | #3,092 | 7 | |
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| 1925 | — | #3,408 | 7 | |
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| 1922 | — | #3,532 | 7 | |
| 1921 | — | — | ||
| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
| 1919 | — | — | ||
| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
| 1917 | — | — | ||
| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1942
The first year at least five girls were named Day! It came in at #4,124, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1943–1954, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Day is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Day in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Day
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 146 spots since 2020 (#15,088 → #14,942)
Rise & fade · girls
13 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 1955 at #3,778 (10 births)
- Births halved by 1956, 1 yr 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 121,517
- Highest: 1 in 121,517 girls born in 1973 were named Day (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,778 in 1955, was only 1 in 195,528 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1970s
- 44.6% of all girls named Day (74) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
- Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 6 | #4,124 (1942) | #4,124 |
| 1950s | 10 | #3,778 (1955) | #3,778 |
| 1960s | 5 | #6,564 (1966) | #6,564 |
| 1970s | 74 | #4,586 (1973) | #6,548 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 5 | #13,147 (1991) | #13,147 |
| 2000s | 17 | #13,521 (2001) | #14,681 |
| 2010s | 31 | #12,876 (2016) | #14,405 |
| 2020s | 18 | #11,231 (2022) | #13,754 |
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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