Memphis
#1,493 for girls in 2025, 143 births · #639 for boys in 2025, 437 births
Given to boys 80.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 768 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 10,185since 1916
Memphis over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #1,493 | 143 | #639 | 437 |
| 2024 | #1,579 | 133 | #586 | 487 |
| 2023 | #1,164 | 207 | #486 | 614 |
| 2022 | #1,024 | 251 | #441 | 705 |
| 2021 | #1,129 | 218 | #404 | 768 |
| 2020 | #1,308 | 168 | #455 | 653 |
| 2019 | #1,345 | 169 | #432 | 711 |
| 2018 | #1,506 | 145 | #457 | 647 |
| 2017 | #2,018 | 97 | #563 | 483 |
| 2016 | #2,093 | 93 | #624 | 429 |
| 2015 | #1,919 | 105 | #649 | 401 |
| 2014 | #1,922 | 104 | #682 | 371 |
| 2013 | #2,259 | 82 | #632 | 390 |
| 2012 | #2,935 | 58 | #754 | 303 |
| 2011 | #2,369 | 78 | #720 | 316 |
| 2010 | #2,781 | 63 | #609 | 407 |
| 2009 | #2,270 | 86 | #602 | 429 |
| 2008 | #2,441 | 78 | #685 | 351 |
| 2007 | #3,247 | 52 | #796 | 271 |
| 2006 | #3,414 | 47 | #934 | 201 |
| 2005 | #4,195 | 33 | #1,081 | 152 |
| 2004 | #4,387 | 31 | #1,067 | 150 |
| 2003 | #3,805 | 36 | #1,125 | 135 |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 | #1,016 | 152 |
| 2001 | #4,025 | 31 | #1,200 | 113 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #5,588 | 12 |
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| 1946 | — | #3,173 | 6 | |
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| 1941 | — | #3,133 | 6 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
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| 1937 | — | #2,905 | 7 | |
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| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
| 1929 | — | #3,247 | 7 | |
| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
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| 1925 | — | #3,741 | 6 | |
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| 1923 | — | #2,772 | 10 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,532 | 7 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,517 | 7 | |
| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
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| 1918 | — | #3,096 | 8 | |
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| 1916 | — | #2,926 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Memphis! It came in at #2,926, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Memphis is popular in 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- South Dakota#130 · 1 in 376
- Kentucky#145 · 1 in 554
- Oklahoma#163 · 1 in 615
- Alabama#205 · 1 in 781
- Indiana#235 · 1 in 1,021
Best ever in a state: #130 in South Dakota, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | #130 | 10 | 1 in 376 |
| Kentucky | #145 | 37 | 1 in 554 |
| Oklahoma | #163 | 30 | 1 in 615 |
| Alabama | #205 | 29 | 1 in 781 |
| Indiana | #235 | 33 | 1 in 1,021 |
| Missouri | #238 | 30 | 1 in 992 |
| Tennessee | #249 | 34 | 1 in 1,035 |
| Arkansas | #252 | 14 | 1 in 950 |
| Kansas | #278 | 13 | 1 in 1,087 |
| South Carolina | #287 | 16 | 1 in 1,289 |
| Louisiana | #292 | 20 | 1 in 1,130 |
| Iowa | #300 | 12 | 1 in 1,199 |
| North Carolina | #308 | 36 | 1 in 1,393 |
| Idaho | #335 | 6 | 1 in 1,302 |
| Ohio | #346 | 33 | 1 in 1,714 |
| West Virginia | #347 | 5 | 1 in 1,466 |
| Georgia | #367 | 29 | 1 in 1,791 |
| Illinois | #369 | 31 | 1 in 1,855 |
| Wisconsin | #371 | 15 | 1 in 1,672 |
| Maryland | #372 | 14 | 1 in 1,861 |
| New Mexico | #377 | 5 | 1 in 1,521 |
| Virginia | #420 | 18 | 1 in 2,194 |
| Nebraska | #430 | 5 | 1 in 1,805 |
| Pennsylvania | #446 | 22 | 1 in 2,539 |
| Mississippi | #464 | 6 | 1 in 2,132 |
| Michigan | #477 | 17 | 1 in 2,590 |
| Nevada | #509 | 5 | 1 in 2,568 |
| Texas | #536 | 55 | 1 in 3,173 |
| Florida | #556 | 28 | 1 in 3,384 |
| Oregon | #608 | 5 | 1 in 3,293 |
| Washington | #659 | 9 | 1 in 3,786 |
| Colorado | #699 | 6 | 1 in 4,303 |
| Minnesota | #711 | 6 | 1 in 4,363 |
| Massachusetts | #728 | 5 | 1 in 5,627 |
| California | #754 | 33 | 1 in 6,156 |
| Arizona | #807 | 6 | 1 in 5,573 |
| New York | #1,141 | 10 | 1 in 9,355 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Memphis
- 53 spots since 2024 (#586 → #639)
- 184 spots since 2020 (#455 → #639)
- 10 spots since 2015 (#649 → #639)
- Biggest jump: 147 spots in 2006 (#1,081 → #934)
- Biggest drop: 111 spots in 2011 (#609 → #720)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 2021 at #404 (768 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2006–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,278 boys born in 2021 were named Memphis (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,909 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 43.8% of all boys named Memphis (4,458) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1996, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 16 | #2,926 (1916) | #3,011 |
| 1920s | 47 | #2,772 (1923) | #3,607 |
| 1930s | 12 | #2,905 (1937) | #3,453 |
| 1940s | 17 | #3,133 (1941) | #3,255 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 5 | #9,265 (1997) | #9,265 |
| 2000s | 1,966 | #602 (2009) | #1,409 |
| 2010s | 4,458 | #432 (2019) | #612 |
| 2020s | 3,664 | #404 (2021) | #502 |
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.
Memphis in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 9,931 of them was named Memphis, which outranked 92.5% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 2,524 of them was named Memphis, which outranked 96.9% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.