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 | — | |
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 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 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#772 · 1 in 3,690
- South Carolina#812 · 1 in 3,581
- Minnesota#839 · 1 in 4,190
- Colorado#900 · 1 in 4,324
- Missouri#908 · 1 in 4,697
Best ever in a state: #365 in Nevada, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | #772 | 9 | 1 in 3,690 |
| South Carolina | #812 | 5 | 1 in 3,581 |
| Minnesota | #839 | 5 | 1 in 4,190 |
| Colorado | #900 | 5 | 1 in 4,324 |
| Missouri | #908 | 5 | 1 in 4,697 |
| Michigan | #1,067 | 6 | 1 in 5,880 |
| Ohio | #1,132 | 7 | 1 in 6,708 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,134 | 7 | 1 in 6,665 |
| Tennessee | #1,159 | 5 | 1 in 6,310 |
| North Carolina | #1,270 | 6 | 1 in 7,404 |
| California | #1,316 | 19 | 1 in 8,679 |
| Florida | #1,326 | 10 | 1 in 8,507 |
| Texas | #1,462 | 17 | 1 in 9,538 |
| New York | #1,519 | 8 | 1 in 9,719 |
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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 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 10,092 of them was named Symphony, which outranked 92.0% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,402Idalia160
- #1,402Khadijah160
- #1,402Londynn160
- #1,407Symphony159
- #1,407Aimee159
- #1,407Emmarie159
- #1,407Ester159
- #1,415Carmella158
- #1,415Emberlee158
- #1,415Evalynn158
Tied with 7 names at #1,407; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 155,507 of them was named Symphony, which outranked 48.7% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,897Zeid12
- #6,897Zoe12
- #6,897Zyonn12
- #7,289Symphony11
- #7,289Aadhav11
- #7,289Aadit11
- #7,289Aadyn11
- #7,738Aadam10
- #7,738Aalijah10
- #7,738Aari10
Tied with 448 names at #7,289; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.