North
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to boys 81.8% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1885 · 6 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 333since 1885
North 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 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #6,517 | 13 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 | #7,262 | 11 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #8,825 | 8 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | — | #5,297 | 17 | |
| 2016 | — | #6,726 | 12 | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #7,491 | 10 |
| 2014 | — | #6,307 | 13 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,463 | 21 | |
| 2012 | — | #6,306 | 13 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,659 | 20 | |
| 2010 | — | #4,848 | 19 | |
| 2009 | — | #7,236 | 11 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,763 | 12 | |
| 2007 | — | #7,590 | 10 | |
| 2006 | — | #6,904 | 11 | |
| 2005 | — | — | ||
| 2004 | — | #8,927 | 7 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,831 | 8 | |
| 2002 | — | #10,667 | 5 | |
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| 2000 | — | #5,920 | 11 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,874 | 7 | |
| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,668 | 13 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,136 | 7 | |
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| 1930 | — | #3,289 | 7 | |
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| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1885
The first year at least five boys were named North! It came in at #836, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1886–1929, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 3,021 spots since 2024 (#8,987 → #12,008)
- 1,403 spots since 2020 (#10,605 → #12,008)
- 4,517 spots since 2015 (#7,491 → #12,008)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
- Debuted 1885
- Peaked 1885 at #836 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1886, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1885
Share of babies · boys
1 in 17,967
- Highest: 1 in 17,967 boys born in 1885 were named North (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 42.3% of all boys named North (141) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2024
- Mostly boys until 2023, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | #836 (1885) | #836 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 5 | #4,179 (1918) | #4,179 |
| 1920s | 15 | #4,210 (1927) | #4,273 |
| 1930s | 7 | #3,289 (1930) | #3,289 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 33 | #4,668 (1997) | #7,039 |
| 2000s | 75 | #5,920 (2000) | #7,730 |
| 2010s | 141 | #4,463 (2013) | #6,401 |
| 2020s | 51 | #6,517 (2023) | #9,034 |
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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