Psalm
- #2,239 for girls in 2025, 82 births
- #1,108 for boys in 2025, 194 births
- Given to boys 67.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 194 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 761since 1999
Psalm 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 | #2,239 | 82 | #1,108 | 194 |
| 2024 | #2,857 | 58 | #1,172 | 177 |
| 2023 | #3,709 | 41 | #1,485 | 121 |
| 2022 | #5,028 | 26 | #2,000 | 76 |
| 2021 | #6,414 | 18 | #2,277 | 61 |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 | #2,980 | 39 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #8,816 | 8 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | #10,644 | 6 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #7,048 | 11 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #8,118 | 9 |
| 2012 | #8,632 | 13 | — | |
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| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | — | |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | — | |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #9,788 | 7 |
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| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | — | |
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| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #9,912 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Psalm! It came in at #9,912, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1999–2003, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Psalm is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Virginia#670 · 1 in 3,725
- Alabama#685 · 1 in 3,586
- Texas#789 · 1 in 5,149
- Washington#801 · 1 in 4,685
- Tennessee#927 · 1 in 6,128
Best ever in a state: #327 in Nebraska, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #670 | 10 | 1 in 3,725 |
| Alabama | #685 | 6 | 1 in 3,586 |
| Texas | #789 | 34 | 1 in 5,149 |
| Washington | #801 | 7 | 1 in 4,685 |
| Tennessee | #927 | 6 | 1 in 6,128 |
| North Carolina | #936 | 8 | 1 in 6,434 |
| New York | #950 | 13 | 1 in 6,494 |
| Florida | #958 | 14 | 1 in 6,824 |
| Ohio | #1,015 | 7 | 1 in 7,505 |
| Georgia | #1,096 | 7 | 1 in 7,174 |
| California | #1,150 | 17 | 1 in 10,322 |
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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 Psalm
- 1,872 spots since 2020 (#2,980 → #1,108)
- Debuted 1999
- Peaked 2025 at #1,108 (194 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,805 boys born in 2025 were named Psalm (0.01%)
- 87.8% of all boys named Psalm (668) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2018, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1990s | 5 | #9,912 (1999) | #9,912 |
| 2000s | 26 | #8,927 (2004) | #9,732 |
| 2010s | 62 | #5,555 (2019) | #8,871 |
| 2020s | 668 | #1,108 (2025) | #1,837 |
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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