Light
- #8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births
- #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
- Given to boys 67.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 26 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 162since 2008
Light 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #5,443 | 17 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | #6,517 | 13 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #4,303 | 24 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #4,011 | 26 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | #6,620 | 12 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | — | #10,744 | 6 | |
| 2015 | — | #9,568 | 7 | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #8,781 | 8 |
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| 2010 | — | #10,766 | 6 | |
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| 2008 | — | #9,871 | 7 | |
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First appearance
2008
The first year at least five boys were named Light! It came in at #9,871, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2009, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Light is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Light in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 3,467 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #8,910)
- 2,290 spots since 2020 (#6,620 → #8,910)
- 658 spots since 2015 (#9,568 → #8,910)
Rise & fade · boys
13 yrs to peak
- Debuted 2008
- Peaked 2021 at #4,011 (26 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 2 yrs 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 67,288
- Highest: 1 in 67,288 boys born in 2021 were named Light (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
- 61.7% of all boys named Light (100) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
- Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 7 | #9,871 (2008) | #9,871 |
| 2010s | 55 | #6,685 (2017) | #9,204 |
| 2020s | 100 | #4,011 (2021) | #5,967 |
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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