Spring
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births
- Peak · girls
- 1976 · 251 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,528since 1951
Spring over time
Rank among girls' names. Spring has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 |
| 2023 | #6,169 | 19 |
| 2022 | #6,464 | 18 |
| 2021 | #3,614 | 42 |
| 2020 | #5,314 | 23 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 |
| 2018 | #4,768 | 28 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 |
| 2015 | #5,833 | 22 |
| 2014 | #6,987 | 17 |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 |
| 2011 | #7,436 | 16 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 |
| 2007 | #6,093 | 22 |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 |
| 2005 | #5,437 | 23 |
| 2004 | #5,208 | 24 |
| 2003 | #4,418 | 29 |
| 2002 | #4,767 | 25 |
| 2001 | #4,688 | 25 |
| 2000 | #3,808 | 33 |
| 1999 | #4,445 | 25 |
| 1998 | #3,497 | 34 |
| 1997 | #3,547 | 32 |
| 1996 | #3,831 | 28 |
| 1995 | #3,585 | 30 |
| 1994 | #3,892 | 27 |
| 1993 | #4,524 | 22 |
| 1992 | #4,686 | 21 |
| 1991 | #3,540 | 30 |
| 1990 | #2,600 | 45 |
| 1989 | #3,045 | 35 |
| 1988 | #2,539 | 42 |
| 1987 | #3,624 | 24 |
| 1986 | #2,420 | 41 |
| 1985 | #2,222 | 46 |
| 1984 | #1,657 | 66 |
| 1983 | #1,565 | 71 |
| 1982 | #1,551 | 76 |
| 1981 | #1,172 | 113 |
| 1980 | #1,089 | 128 |
| 1979 | #875 | 176 |
| 1978 | #849 | 174 |
| 1977 | #824 | 182 |
| 1976 | #622 | 251 |
| 1975 | #831 | 162 |
| 1974 | #1,268 | 85 |
| 1973 | #1,226 | 86 |
| 1972 | #1,181 | 91 |
| 1971 | #1,322 | 81 |
| 1970 | #1,154 | 100 |
| 1969 | #1,572 | 57 |
| 1968 | #2,296 | 28 |
| 1967 | #4,053 | 11 |
| 1966 | #2,519 | 23 |
| 1965 | #2,464 | 24 |
| 1964 | #3,000 | 18 |
| 1963 | #2,543 | 23 |
| 1962 | #2,357 | 26 |
| 1961 | #2,752 | 20 |
| 1960 | #2,150 | 29 |
| 1959 | #1,918 | 34 |
| 1958 | #1,606 | 44 |
| 1957 | #1,202 | 77 |
| 1956 | #1,002 | 104 |
| 1955 | #1,597 | 41 |
| 1954 | #1,648 | 38 |
| 1953 | #1,973 | 27 |
| 1952 | #1,820 | 30 |
| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Spring! It came in at #4,385, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1951, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Spring is popular in 1956
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#550 · 1 in 7,396
- New Jersey#565 · 1 in 9,185
- Pennsylvania#629 · 1 in 11,578
- Illinois#694 · 1 in 11,656
- Ohio#824 · 1 in 17,895
Best ever in a state: #168 in Montana, 1971.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| North Carolina | #550 | 7 | 1 in 7,396 |
| New Jersey | #565 | 6 | 1 in 9,185 |
| Pennsylvania | #629 | 10 | 1 in 11,578 |
| Illinois | #694 | 9 | 1 in 11,656 |
| Ohio | #824 | 6 | 1 in 17,895 |
| Michigan | #860 | 5 | 1 in 18,798 |
| New York | #1,082 | 6 | 1 in 27,459 |
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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 Spring
- 584 spots since 2024 (#5,962 → #6,546)
- 1,232 spots since 2020 (#5,314 → #6,546)
- 713 spots since 2015 (#5,833 → #6,546)
- Biggest jump: 437 spots in 1975 (#1,268 → #831)
- Biggest drop: 214 spots in 1980 (#875 → #1,089)
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 1976 at #622 (251 births)
- Births halved by 1981, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1975–1979
- Highest: 1 in 5,837 girls born in 1976 were named Spring (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 39.3% of all girls named Spring (1,388) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 402 | #1,002 (1956) | #1,906 |
| 1960s | 259 | #1,572 (1969) | #2,571 |
| 1970s | 1,388 | #622 (1976) | #1,015 |
| 1980s | 642 | #1,089 (1980) | #2,088 |
| 1990s | 294 | #2,600 (1990) | #3,815 |
| 2000s | 233 | #3,808 (2000) | #5,633 |
| 2010s | 171 | #4,768 (2018) | #7,232 |
| 2020s | 139 | #3,614 (2021) | #5,678 |
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.
Spring in 1956
Top girls' names in 1956
More about 1956
girls
2,007,703 girls got a published name in 1956; 1 in 19,305 of them was named Spring, which outranked 85.5% of the 6,891 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #999Adrianne105
- #999Debroah105
- #999Sheron105
- #1,002Spring104
- #1,002Darline104
- #1,002Melodee104
- #1,002Theodora104
- #1,007Elma103
- #1,007Esperanza103
- #1,007Evonne103
Tied with 4 names at #1,002; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.