Happy
- #9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births
- #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
- Given to boys 53.4% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1936 · 14 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 310since 1912
Happy 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 | #9,457 | 10 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | — | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | — | #10,744 | 6 | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | — | |
| 2014 | — | — | ||
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | — | |
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| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #12,553 | 5 |
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| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #10,662 | 6 |
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| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | — | |
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| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | — | |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 | — | |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,637 | 18 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,459 | 13 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 | #3,146 | 10 |
| 1970 | #4,761 | 11 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,958 | 13 | — | |
| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 | — | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
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| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | #3,050 | 8 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | — | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | #3,652 | 6 |
| 1960 | — | #2,871 | 9 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
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| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
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| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
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| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
| 1948 | — | #3,316 | 6 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,534 | 9 | |
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| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
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| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,868 | 7 | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | #1,872 | 14 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,396 | 10 | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | #3,004 | 7 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,471 | 10 | |
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| 1929 | — | #3,247 | 7 | |
| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
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| 1926 | — | #3,385 | 7 | |
| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 | #3,505 | 7 |
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| 1922 | — | #3,252 | 8 | |
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| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 | #3,115 | 8 |
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| 1917 | — | #3,545 | 6 | |
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| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,651 | 7 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,496 | 6 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,269 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1912
The first year at least five boys were named Happy! It came in at #2,269, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Happy is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Happy in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Happy
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 1,224 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #9,714)
- 2,212 spots since 2020 (#7,502 → #9,714)
Rise & fade · boys
24 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 1936 at #1,872 (14 births)
- Births halved by 1937, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 71,657
- Highest: 1 in 71,657 boys born in 1912 were named Happy (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,872 in 1936, was only 1 in 74,086 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1930s
- 18.7% of all boys named Happy (58) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2021
- Mostly boys until 2020, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 39 | #2,269 (1912) | #2,911 |
| 1920s | 39 | #3,247 (1929) | #3,623 |
| 1930s | 58 | #1,872 (1936) | #2,838 |
| 1940s | 25 | #2,534 (1946) | #3,272 |
| 1950s | 15 | #3,798 (1953) | #3,891 |
| 1960s | 35 | #2,871 (1960) | #3,365 |
| 1970s | 17 | #3,146 (1971) | #3,668 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 11 | #10,662 (2006) | #11,608 |
| 2010s | 31 | #8,840 (2017) | #10,726 |
| 2020s | 40 | #7,502 (2020) | #9,143 |
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.
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