Unique
#2,438 for girls in 2025, 73 births · #2,765 for boys in 2025, 46 births
Given to girls 88.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 264 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,615since 1972
Unique over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #2,438 | 73 | #2,765 | 46 |
| 2024 | #2,150 | 88 | #2,595 | 51 |
| 2023 | #1,903 | 104 | #3,474 | 33 |
| 2022 | #1,953 | 101 | #4,303 | 24 |
| 2021 | #1,652 | 126 | #6,032 | 14 |
| 2020 | #1,687 | 121 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #1,789 | 114 | #6,104 | 14 |
| 2018 | #1,799 | 113 | #7,617 | 10 |
| 2017 | #1,686 | 127 | #7,095 | 11 |
| 2016 | #1,743 | 119 | #7,605 | 10 |
| 2015 | #1,554 | 141 | #7,066 | 11 |
| 2014 | #1,479 | 151 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | #1,502 | 147 | #5,171 | 17 |
| 2012 | #1,153 | 213 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | #1,117 | 221 | #5,675 | 15 |
| 2010 | #1,082 | 230 | #5,251 | 17 |
| 2009 | #921 | 292 | #5,102 | 18 |
| 2008 | #1,108 | 233 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2007 | #1,137 | 226 | #4,127 | 24 |
| 2006 | #1,066 | 239 | #3,451 | 30 |
| 2005 | #928 | 268 | #4,198 | 21 |
| 2004 | #1,008 | 234 | #3,074 | 32 |
| 2003 | #1,035 | 221 | #2,993 | 32 |
| 2002 | #919 | 243 | #2,556 | 38 |
| 2001 | #841 | 272 | #2,562 | 37 |
| 2000 | #888 | 248 | #2,525 | 37 |
| 1999 | #831 | 259 | #2,510 | 35 |
| 1998 | #865 | 245 | #2,599 | 32 |
| 1997 | #817 | 253 | #2,347 | 35 |
| 1996 | #786 | 264 | #2,483 | 31 |
| 1995 | #883 | 215 | #3,020 | 23 |
| 1994 | #1,055 | 172 | #2,951 | 24 |
| 1993 | #999 | 185 | #3,501 | 18 |
| 1992 | #1,037 | 179 | #2,412 | 30 |
| 1991 | #1,201 | 144 | #3,636 | 16 |
| 1990 | #1,318 | 123 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #1,187 | 137 | #2,416 | 27 |
| 1988 | #1,376 | 103 | #3,523 | 14 |
| 1987 | #1,418 | 93 | #3,731 | 12 |
| 1986 | #1,526 | 80 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #1,588 | 75 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,788 | 60 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #1,858 | 56 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #2,492 | 38 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #2,009 | 52 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,043 | 51 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #1,795 | 60 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,801 | 29 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #2,381 | 37 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,154 | 15 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 | — | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
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| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Unique! It came in at #7,292, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1974, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Unique is popular in 1972
No state had 5 or more girls named Unique in 1972, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Unique
- 288 spots since 2024 (#2,150 → #2,438)
- 751 spots since 2020 (#1,687 → #2,438)
- 884 spots since 2015 (#1,554 → #2,438)
- Biggest jump: 187 spots in 2009 (#1,108 → #921)
- Biggest drop: 161 spots in 2010 (#921 → #1,082)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 1996 at #786 (264 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 20 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 1995–2002
- Highest: 1 in 6,291 girls born in 2009 were named Unique (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,017 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #786 in 1996, was only 1 in 6,640 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.5% of all girls named Unique (2,476) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 166 | #1,795 (1979) | #4,510 |
| 1980s | 745 | #1,187 (1989) | #1,729 |
| 1990s | 2,039 | #786 (1996) | #979 |
| 2000s | 2,476 | #841 (2001) | #985 |
| 2010s | 1,576 | #1,082 (2010) | #1,490 |
| 2020s | 613 | #1,652 (2021) | #1,964 |
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.
Unique in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 253,541 of them was named Unique, which outranked 24.6% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,558Yukiko7
- #6,558Zorina7
- #6,558Zully7
- #7,292Unique6
- #7,292Adonia6
- #7,292Afua6
- #7,292Aggie6
- #8,292Aarona5
- #8,292Abigale5
- #8,292Adabel5
Tied with 999 names at #7,292; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.