Race
- #6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
- Peak · boys
- 2000 · 62 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,411since 1954
Race over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Race has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,803 | 12 |
| 2024 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #6,032 | 14 |
| 2020 | #8,067 | 9 |
| 2019 | #6,777 | 12 |
| 2018 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #4,943 | 19 |
| 2015 | #3,775 | 28 |
| 2014 | #3,787 | 27 |
| 2013 | #4,064 | 24 |
| 2012 | #3,179 | 35 |
| 2011 | #2,904 | 40 |
| 2010 | #3,239 | 34 |
| 2009 | #3,105 | 37 |
| 2008 | #2,684 | 46 |
| 2007 | #2,372 | 54 |
| 2006 | #2,248 | 56 |
| 2005 | #1,983 | 63 |
| 2004 | #2,164 | 54 |
| 2003 | #2,102 | 53 |
| 2002 | #1,772 | 65 |
| 2001 | #2,346 | 42 |
| 2000 | #1,768 | 62 |
| 1999 | #1,801 | 55 |
| 1998 | #1,833 | 54 |
| 1997 | #1,991 | 45 |
| 1996 | #2,017 | 43 |
| 1995 | #2,210 | 36 |
| 1994 | #2,847 | 25 |
| 1993 | #2,257 | 34 |
| 1992 | #2,909 | 23 |
| 1991 | #2,989 | 21 |
| 1990 | #3,607 | 16 |
| 1989 | #2,902 | 21 |
| 1988 | #2,765 | 20 |
| 1987 | #2,559 | 21 |
| 1986 | #3,131 | 15 |
| 1985 | #4,052 | 10 |
| 1984 | #3,701 | 11 |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
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| 1981 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
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| 1973 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #3,622 | 8 |
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| 1970 | #2,891 | 11 |
| 1969 | #2,682 | 11 |
| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
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| 1966 | #3,948 | 5 |
| 1965 | #2,476 | 11 |
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| 1962 | #3,640 | 6 |
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| 1959 | #3,290 | 7 |
| 1958 | #3,033 | 8 |
| 1957 | #2,822 | 9 |
| 1956 | #3,535 | 6 |
| 1955 | #3,505 | 6 |
| 1954 | #3,827 | 5 |
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First appearance
1954
The first year at least five boys were named Race! It came in at #3,827, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1961, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Race is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Race in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Race
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 4,135 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #6,803)
- 1,264 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #6,803)
- 3,028 spots since 2015 (#3,775 → #6,803)
Rise & fade · boys
46 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1954
- Peaked 2000 at #1,768 (62 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 13 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 29,869
- Highest: 1 in 29,869 boys born in 2002 were named Race (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 142,340 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,768 in 2000, was only 1 in 31,677 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 37.7% of all boys named Race (532) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 41 | #2,822 (1957) | #3,335 |
| 1960s | 39 | #2,476 (1965) | #3,284 |
| 1970s | 30 | #2,891 (1970) | #4,269 |
| 1980s | 114 | #2,559 (1987) | #4,126 |
| 1990s | 352 | #1,801 (1999) | #2,446 |
| 2000s | 532 | #1,768 (2000) | #2,254 |
| 2010s | 245 | #2,904 (2011) | #4,543 |
| 2020s | 58 | #6,032 (2021) | #8,181 |
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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