Turquoise

Last seen for girls in 2011 at #16,764

Peak · girls
1987 · 63 births
Debut · girls
12 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
539
since 1977

Turquoise over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Turquoise has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201979peak #1,838, 1987girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1997#6,48314
1996#8,8129
1995#8,07910
1994#6,67213
1993#4,39323
1992#4,52822
1991#3,93626
1990#2,95738
1989#2,71441
1988#2,41945
1987#1,83863
1986#2,90332
1985#3,85221
1984#2,99229
1983#2,55235
1982#4,71615
1981#4,53216
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1978#5,95810
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First appearance
1977

The first year at least five girls were named Turquoise! It came in at #5,213, and was given to 12 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1998–2025, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Turquoise is popular in 1979

No state had 5 or more girls named Turquoise in 1979, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Turquoise
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2011
Rise & fade · girls
10 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1977
  • Peaked 1987 at #1,838 (63 births)
  • Births halved by 1991, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 27,597
  • Highest: 1 in 27,597 girls born in 1987 were named Turquoise (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 351,813 girls born in 2011 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 58.8% of all girls named Turquoise (317) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s62#2,343 (1979)#4,505
1980s317#1,838 (1987)#3,237
1990s155#2,957 (1990)#5,733
2000s0——
2010s5#16,764 (2011)#16,764

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.

Turquoise in 1979

girls
#2,343
40 births · 1 in 40,132 girls

Top girls' names in 1979

  1. #1Jennifer56,712
  2. #2Melissa34,050
  3. #3Amanda31,924
  4. #4Jessica27,780
  5. #5Amy21,609
  6. #6Sarah21,015
  7. #7Heather20,834
  8. #8Angela20,256
  9. #9Nicole19,510
  10. #10Michelle19,266
  11. #2,343Turquoise40
More about 1979

girls

1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 40,132 of them was named Turquoise, which outranked 80.4% 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).

Ranked beside Turquoise
  1. #2,304Tahira41
  2. #2,304Tajuana41
  3. #2,304Thomasina41
  4. #2,343Turquoise40
  5. #2,343Aime40
  6. #2,343Aleesha40
  7. #2,343Andreana40
  8. #2,387Annalee39
  9. #2,387Aura39
  10. #2,387Becki39

Tied with 43 names at #2,343; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1978
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,593Breanne#2,125 → #532
  2. ↑ 1,527Loni#2,516 → #989
  3. ↑ 1,287Renata#2,012 → #725
  4. ↑ 985Ashanti#1,862 → #877
  5. ↑ 896Nicolette#1,581 → #685
Fallers
  1. ↓ 392Christel#762 → #1,154
  2. ↓ 312Kenisha#557 → #869
  3. ↓ 297Ariane#887 → #1,184
  4. ↓ 285Imelda#947 → #1,232
  5. ↓ 252Farrah#539 → #791

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1979 →