Synthia
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · girls
- 1890 · 6 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,428since 1890
Synthia over time
Rank among girls' names. Synthia 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 | #11,932 | 7 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 |
| 2010 | #5,977 | 22 |
| 2009 | #5,891 | 23 |
| 2008 | #5,955 | 23 |
| 2007 | #6,812 | 19 |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 |
| 2005 | #4,029 | 35 |
| 2004 | #6,768 | 17 |
| 2003 | #5,235 | 23 |
| 2002 | #4,071 | 31 |
| 2001 | #4,321 | 28 |
| 2000 | #4,079 | 30 |
| 1999 | #3,569 | 34 |
| 1998 | #3,068 | 41 |
| 1997 | #2,977 | 40 |
| 1996 | #2,340 | 56 |
| 1995 | #2,932 | 40 |
| 1994 | #2,988 | 39 |
| 1993 | #2,725 | 44 |
| 1992 | #2,513 | 50 |
| 1991 | #3,633 | 29 |
| 1990 | #2,437 | 50 |
| 1989 | #2,879 | 38 |
| 1988 | #2,867 | 36 |
| 1987 | #3,331 | 27 |
| 1986 | #3,554 | 24 |
| 1985 | #3,328 | 26 |
| 1984 | #3,613 | 22 |
| 1983 | #2,853 | 30 |
| 1982 | #3,260 | 26 |
| 1981 | #3,340 | 25 |
| 1980 | #2,940 | 30 |
| 1979 | #2,997 | 28 |
| 1978 | #3,924 | 18 |
| 1977 | #2,715 | 30 |
| 1976 | #4,614 | 13 |
| 1975 | #3,155 | 22 |
| 1974 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1973 | #2,127 | 37 |
| 1972 | #2,276 | 33 |
| 1971 | #2,064 | 40 |
| 1970 | #1,877 | 46 |
| 1969 | #1,835 | 45 |
| 1968 | #1,749 | 45 |
| 1967 | #1,659 | 47 |
| 1966 | #1,448 | 58 |
| 1965 | #1,337 | 67 |
| 1964 | #1,578 | 52 |
| 1963 | #1,715 | 45 |
| 1962 | #1,607 | 49 |
| 1961 | #1,640 | 47 |
| 1960 | #1,467 | 56 |
| 1959 | #1,741 | 40 |
| 1958 | #1,512 | 50 |
| 1957 | #1,588 | 46 |
| 1956 | #1,760 | 36 |
| 1955 | #1,597 | 41 |
| 1954 | #1,677 | 37 |
| 1953 | #2,071 | 25 |
| 1952 | #1,820 | 30 |
| 1951 | #2,245 | 20 |
| 1950 | #2,341 | 18 |
| 1949 | #2,274 | 19 |
| 1948 | #1,901 | 25 |
| 1947 | #2,279 | 19 |
| 1946 | #2,482 | 15 |
| 1945 | #3,132 | 9 |
| 1944 | #3,687 | 7 |
| 1943 | #2,695 | 12 |
| 1942 | #3,738 | 7 |
| 1941 | #3,559 | 7 |
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| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 |
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| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 |
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| 1890 | #1,210 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Synthia! It came in at #1,210, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1891–1940, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Synthia is popular in 1966
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,011 · 1 in 13,127
- California#1,080 · 1 in 15,375
- New York#1,389 · 1 in 29,166
Best ever in a state: #526 in Alabama, 1952.
Show every state
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| Texas | #1,011 | 7 | 1 in 13,127 |
| California | #1,080 | 10 | 1 in 15,375 |
| New York | #1,389 | 5 | 1 in 29,166 |
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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 Synthia
- 1,661 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #11,932)
- 3,156 spots since 2020 (#15,088 → #11,932)
- 97 spots since 2015 (#11,835 → #11,932)
- Debuted 1890
- Peaked 1890 at #1,210 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1891, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 26,346 girls born in 1965 were named Synthia (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,210 in 1890, was only 1 in 31,730 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 21.0% of all girls named Synthia (511) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 6 | #1,210 (1890) | #1,210 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 0 | — | — |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 10 | #4,342 (1938) | #4,446 |
| 1940s | 120 | #1,901 (1948) | #2,861 |
| 1950s | 343 | #1,512 (1958) | #1,835 |
| 1960s | 511 | #1,337 (1965) | #1,604 |
| 1970s | 296 | #1,877 (1970) | #2,831 |
| 1980s | 284 | #2,853 (1983) | #3,197 |
| 1990s | 423 | #2,340 (1996) | #2,918 |
| 2000s | 248 | #4,029 (2005) | #5,375 |
| 2010s | 143 | #5,977 (2010) | #8,251 |
| 2020s | 44 | #9,562 (2021) | #12,107 |
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.
Synthia in 1966
Top girls' names in 1966
More about 1966
girls
1,692,177 girls got a published name in 1966; 1 in 29,175 of them was named Synthia, which outranked 81.0% of the 7,624 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,430Thresa59
- #1,430Tony59
- #1,430Vida59
- #1,448Synthia58
- #1,448Carman58
- #1,448Coreen58
- #1,448Dorthy58
- #1,463Ami57
- #1,463Aundrea57
- #1,463Elnora57
Tied with 14 names at #1,448; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.