Symphony
#1,525 for girls in 2025, 139 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 98.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 169 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,256since 1979
Symphony over time
Rank among girls' names. Symphony 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 | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,525 | 139 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #1,472 | 148 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,407 | 159 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #1,355 | 172 | #6,828 | 12 |
| 2021 | #1,426 | 151 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #1,303 | 169 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,495 | 146 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,577 | 137 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,643 | 131 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,605 | 137 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,540 | 144 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,583 | 136 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,570 | 137 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,733 | 119 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,646 | 130 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,220 | 87 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,119 | 95 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,441 | 78 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,509 | 74 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,778 | 63 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,969 | 54 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,808 | 57 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,412 | 42 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,730 | 35 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,360 | 67 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,216 | 42 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,099 | 42 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,116 | 40 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,365 | 34 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,558 | 49 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,022 | 38 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,790 | 28 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,221 | 35 | — | |
| 1992 | #4,236 | 24 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,936 | 26 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,436 | 31 | — | |
| 1989 | #4,358 | 21 | — | |
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| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | — | |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 | — | |
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| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | — | |
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| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | — | |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Symphony! It came in at #10,210, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1980, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Symphony is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Colorado#916 · 1 in 4,712
- Michigan#1,115 · 1 in 7,012
- Florida#1,182 · 1 in 7,883
- North Carolina#1,215 · 1 in 7,552
- Pennsylvania#1,261 · 1 in 8,642
Best ever in a state: #365 in Nevada, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | #916 | 5 | 1 in 4,712 |
| Michigan | #1,115 | 6 | 1 in 7,012 |
| Florida | #1,182 | 11 | 1 in 7,883 |
| North Carolina | #1,215 | 6 | 1 in 7,552 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,261 | 6 | 1 in 8,642 |
| Georgia | #1,319 | 6 | 1 in 8,008 |
| Illinois | #1,428 | 6 | 1 in 9,604 |
| California | #1,583 | 16 | 1 in 12,732 |
| Texas | #1,697 | 13 | 1 in 12,869 |
| New York | #1,732 | 7 | 1 in 12,834 |
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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 Symphony
- 53 spots since 2024 (#1,472 → #1,525)
- 222 spots since 2020 (#1,303 → #1,525)
- 15 spots since 2015 (#1,540 → #1,525)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2020 at #1,303 (169 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,536 girls born in 2022 were named Symphony (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,563 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,303 in 2020, was only 1 in 9,565 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.0% of all girls named Symphony (1,304) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #10,210 (1979) | #10,210 |
| 1980s | 55 | #4,358 (1989) | #7,091 |
| 1990s | 347 | #2,558 (1996) | #3,378 |
| 2000s | 607 | #2,119 (2009) | #2,834 |
| 2010s | 1,304 | #1,495 (2019) | #1,661 |
| 2020s | 938 | #1,303 (2020) | #1,415 |
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.
Symphony in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 12,934 of them was named Symphony, which outranked 91.5% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,598Montana138
- #1,598Nya138
- #1,598Samiya138
- #1,605Symphony137
- #1,605Dalila137
- #1,605Isadora137
- #1,605Jersey137
- #1,614Adina136
- #1,614Amal136
- #1,614Essence136
Tied with 8 names at #1,605; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.