Sparkle
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · girls
- 1979 · 124 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,641since 1948
Sparkle over time
Rank among girls' names. Sparkle has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 |
| 2014 | #6,451 | 19 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 |
| 2007 | #8,098 | 15 |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 |
| 2004 | #6,489 | 18 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 |
| 2000 | #4,981 | 23 |
| 1999 | #3,970 | 29 |
| 1998 | #4,492 | 24 |
| 1997 | #3,448 | 33 |
| 1996 | #4,739 | 21 |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 |
| 1994 | #4,238 | 24 |
| 1993 | #3,158 | 36 |
| 1992 | #2,830 | 42 |
| 1991 | #2,660 | 45 |
| 1990 | #2,523 | 47 |
| 1989 | #2,250 | 53 |
| 1988 | #2,187 | 52 |
| 1987 | #1,776 | 66 |
| 1986 | #1,751 | 66 |
| 1985 | #1,906 | 58 |
| 1984 | #1,812 | 59 |
| 1983 | #1,411 | 83 |
| 1982 | #1,489 | 80 |
| 1981 | #1,445 | 84 |
| 1980 | #1,197 | 110 |
| 1979 | #1,097 | 124 |
| 1978 | #1,537 | 72 |
| 1977 | #1,303 | 89 |
| 1976 | #1,996 | 44 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sparkle! It came in at #5,243, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1948–1975, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Sparkle is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Oklahoma#449 · 1 in 3,085
- Wisconsin#498 · 1 in 5,099
- North Carolina#508 · 1 in 4,107
- Louisiana#614 · 1 in 4,180
- Michigan#629 · 1 in 5,958
Best ever in a state: #449 in Oklahoma, 1979.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #449 | 6 | 1 in 3,085 |
| Wisconsin | #498 | 6 | 1 in 5,099 |
| North Carolina | #508 | 8 | 1 in 4,107 |
| Louisiana | #614 | 7 | 1 in 4,180 |
| Michigan | #629 | 10 | 1 in 5,958 |
| Florida | #797 | 7 | 1 in 6,696 |
| Ohio | #934 | 6 | 1 in 12,015 |
| Illinois | #1,053 | 7 | 1 in 10,671 |
| Texas | #1,252 | 8 | 1 in 13,889 |
| California | #1,418 | 10 | 1 in 16,333 |
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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 Sparkle
- 2,800 spots since 2020 (#12,142 → #14,942)
- 1,936 spots since 2015 (#13,006 → #14,942)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1979 at #1,097 (124 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,946 girls born in 1979 were named Sparkle (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 43.3% of all girls named Sparkle (711) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,243 (1948) | #5,243 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 329 | #1,097 (1979) | #1,483 |
| 1980s | 711 | #1,197 (1980) | #1,722 |
| 1990s | 325 | #2,523 (1990) | #3,628 |
| 2000s | 142 | #4,981 (2000) | #8,457 |
| 2010s | 97 | #6,451 (2014) | #11,139 |
| 2020s | 32 | #11,146 (2021) | #13,133 |
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.
Sparkle in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
More about 1979
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1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 12,946 of them was named Sparkle, which outranked 90.8% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,085Sherika126
- #1,095Karri125
- #1,095Mistie125
- #1,097Sparkle124
- #1,097Aida124
- #1,097Alena124
- #1,097Kiesha124
- #1,104Keshia123
- #1,104Maegan123
- #1,104Marcela123
Tied with 6 names at #1,097; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.