Primrose
#2,542 for girls in 2025, 69 births
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 93 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,033since 1914
Primrose over time
Rank among girls' names. Primrose has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,542 | 69 |
| 2024 | #2,099 | 91 |
| 2023 | #2,107 | 91 |
| 2022 | #2,156 | 88 |
| 2021 | #2,057 | 93 |
| 2020 | #2,135 | 85 |
| 2019 | #2,140 | 87 |
| 2018 | #2,361 | 77 |
| 2017 | #2,835 | 59 |
| 2016 | #2,866 | 59 |
| 2015 | #3,211 | 51 |
| 2014 | #3,652 | 42 |
| 2013 | #4,156 | 35 |
| 2012 | #7,144 | 17 |
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| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
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| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 |
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| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 |
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| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 |
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| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 |
| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 |
| 1930 | #3,055 | 9 |
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| 1924 | #4,002 | 7 |
| 1923 | #3,641 | 8 |
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| 1921 | #3,164 | 10 |
| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 |
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| 1917 | #3,713 | 7 |
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| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 |
| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Primrose! It came in at #3,618, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1916, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Primrose is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#1,218 · 1 in 7,255
- Illinois#1,412 · 1 in 8,988
- California#1,788 · 1 in 13,805
- Florida#1,882 · 1 in 14,384
Best ever in a state: #817 in Missouri, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #1,218 | 5 | 1 in 7,255 |
| Illinois | #1,412 | 5 | 1 in 8,988 |
| California | #1,788 | 12 | 1 in 13,805 |
| Florida | #1,882 | 6 | 1 in 14,384 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Primrose
- 443 spots since 2024 (#2,099 → #2,542)
- 407 spots since 2020 (#2,135 → #2,542)
- 669 spots since 2015 (#3,211 → #2,542)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 2021 at #2,057 (93 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,633 girls born in 2023 were named Primrose (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 23,294 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,057 in 2021, was only 1 in 17,644 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 50.0% of all girls named Primrose (517) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 17 | #3,618 (1914) | #3,868 |
| 1920s | 30 | #3,164 (1921) | #3,946 |
| 1930s | 19 | #3,055 (1930) | #3,932 |
| 1940s | 7 | #3,503 (1940) | #3,503 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 5 | #6,390 (1960) | #6,390 |
| 1970s | 6 | #7,435 (1973) | #7,435 |
| 1980s | 5 | #10,517 (1982) | #10,517 |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 427 | #2,140 (2019) | #3,546 |
| 2020s | 517 | #2,057 (2021) | #2,183 |
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.
Primrose in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 17,804 of them was named Primrose, which outranked 88.2% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,080Roxana92
- #2,080Taelynn92
- #2,080Temperance92
- #2,099Primrose91
- #2,099Alita91
- #2,099Amiracle91
- #2,099Anabia91
- #2,118Analise90
- #2,118Avila90
- #2,118Aziyah90
Tied with 18 names at #2,099; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.