Simcha
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #1,728 for boys in 2025, 94 births
Given to boys 89.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 94 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,009since 1956
Simcha 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 | #14,942 | 5 | #1,728 | 94 |
| 2024 | — | #2,042 | 74 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #2,244 | 63 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #2,094 | 71 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | #2,000 | 74 |
| 2020 | — | #2,046 | 69 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,790 | 86 | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #1,901 | 78 |
| 2017 | — | #2,450 | 52 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,278 | 58 | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #2,068 | 68 |
| 2014 | — | #2,402 | 53 | |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | #2,402 | 52 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #2,185 | 60 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #2,317 | 55 |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 | #2,730 | 44 |
| 2009 | — | #2,486 | 51 | |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #2,828 | 42 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #2,920 | 40 |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 | #2,513 | 48 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #2,493 | 45 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #2,643 | 40 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #2,545 | 40 |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 | #3,450 | 25 |
| 2001 | #8,758 | 11 | #2,681 | 35 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #3,640 | 22 |
| 1999 | — | #2,865 | 29 | |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #3,849 | 18 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #2,260 | 37 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #3,293 | 21 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #2,299 | 34 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #2,082 | 39 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #1,969 | 41 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #2,303 | 32 |
| 1991 | — | #4,005 | 14 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,166 | 19 | |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #2,989 | 20 |
| 1988 | — | #2,305 | 26 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,339 | 14 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,268 | 14 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,805 | 11 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,270 | 13 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,230 | 13 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,482 | 12 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,412 | 12 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,615 | 11 | |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | #2,897 | 15 |
| 1978 | — | #2,669 | 16 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,836 | 9 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,095 | 12 | |
| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
| 1974 | — | #4,190 | 7 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,370 | 9 | |
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| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
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| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
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| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
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| 1960 | — | #4,038 | 5 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,257 | 7 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,798 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Simcha! It came in at #2,798, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1958–1961, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Simcha is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#263 · 1 in 1,136
- New York#345 · 1 in 1,655
Best ever in a state: #263 in New Jersey, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #263 | 35 | 1 in 1,136 |
| New York | #345 | 51 | 1 in 1,655 |
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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 Simcha
- 314 spots since 2024 (#2,042 → #1,728)
- 318 spots since 2020 (#2,046 → #1,728)
- 340 spots since 2015 (#2,068 → #1,728)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 2025 at #1,728 (94 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,171 boys born in 2025 were named Simcha (0.01%)
- 30.2% of all boys named Simcha (606) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 21 | #2,798 (1956) | #3,348 |
| 1960s | 33 | #3,537 (1965) | #3,854 |
| 1970s | 86 | #2,669 (1978) | #3,780 |
| 1980s | 146 | #2,305 (1988) | #3,272 |
| 1990s | 284 | #1,969 (1993) | #2,809 |
| 2000s | 388 | #2,486 (2009) | #2,820 |
| 2010s | 606 | #1,790 (2019) | #2,252 |
| 2020s | 445 | #1,728 (2025) | #2,026 |
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.
Simcha in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 321,453 of them was named Simcha, which outranked 13.6% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
Tied with 2,355 names at #14,942; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 18,171 of them was named Simcha, which outranked 87.6% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #1,708Shalom95
- #1,708Wynn95
- #1,708Zuriel95
- #1,728Simcha94
- #1,728Anson94
- #1,728Bakari94
- #1,728Bentlee94
- #1,743Augustin93
- #1,743Deion93
- #1,743Ender93
Tied with 14 names at #1,728; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.