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 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Mexico#354 · 1 in 1,306
- Maryland#714 · 1 in 3,888
- South Carolina#746 · 1 in 4,192
- Georgia#796 · 1 in 4,647
- Ohio#800 · 1 in 5,269
Best ever in a state: #327 in Nebraska, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | #354 | 5 | 1 in 1,306 |
| Maryland | #714 | 6 | 1 in 3,888 |
| South Carolina | #746 | 5 | 1 in 4,192 |
| Georgia | #796 | 11 | 1 in 4,647 |
| Ohio | #800 | 10 | 1 in 5,269 |
| Missouri | #861 | 5 | 1 in 5,486 |
| Arizona | #921 | 5 | 1 in 6,625 |
| Indiana | #954 | 5 | 1 in 6,420 |
| North Carolina | #968 | 8 | 1 in 6,393 |
| Florida | #1,000 | 13 | 1 in 7,357 |
| Texas | #1,005 | 23 | 1 in 7,774 |
| California | #1,190 | 16 | 1 in 11,266 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,241 | 5 | 1 in 10,450 |
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See more about Psalm
- 64 spots since 2024 (#1,172 → #1,108)
- 1,872 spots since 2020 (#2,980 → #1,108)
- 9,536 spots since 2015 (#10,644 → #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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Psalm in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 27,934 of them was named Psalm, which outranked 83.9% 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).
- #2,819Vania59
- #2,819Veera59
- #2,819Vittoria59
- #2,857Psalm58
- #2,857Adrian58
- #2,857Ameena58
- #2,857Audrianna58
- #2,889Aayla57
- #2,889Abriella57
- #2,889Alize57
Tied with 31 names at #2,857; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 9,734 of them was named Psalm, which outranked 91.8% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).