Whisper
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 40 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 792since 1973
Whisper over time
Rank among girls' names. Whisper has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 |
| 2017 | #6,287 | 19 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 |
| 2011 | #7,436 | 16 |
| 2010 | #6,382 | 20 |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 |
| 2008 | #5,142 | 28 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 |
| 2006 | #5,906 | 22 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 |
| 2004 | #5,062 | 25 |
| 2003 | #3,655 | 38 |
| 2002 | #4,498 | 27 |
| 2001 | #4,564 | 26 |
| 2000 | #4,079 | 30 |
| 1999 | #3,895 | 30 |
| 1998 | #3,831 | 30 |
| 1997 | #3,105 | 38 |
| 1996 | #2,966 | 40 |
| 1995 | #3,022 | 38 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 |
| 1992 | #6,314 | 14 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 |
| 1985 | #4,635 | 16 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
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| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 |
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| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Whisper! It came in at #8,423, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1974, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Whisper is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#1,120 · 1 in 10,392
- California#3,021 · 1 in 44,570
Best ever in a state: #539 in Oklahoma, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #1,120 | 5 | 1 in 10,392 |
| California | #3,021 | 5 | 1 in 44,570 |
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See more about Whisper
- 1,545 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #11,932)
- 1,521 spots since 2020 (#13,453 → #11,932)
- 2,451 spots since 2015 (#9,481 → #11,932)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1996 at #2,966 (40 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 43,825 girls born in 1996 were named Whisper (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.2% of all girls named Whisper (247) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 29 | #7,984 (1975) | #8,455 |
| 1980s | 85 | #4,635 (1985) | #7,272 |
| 1990s | 240 | #2,966 (1996) | #5,087 |
| 2000s | 247 | #3,655 (2003) | #5,479 |
| 2010s | 140 | #6,287 (2017) | #8,456 |
| 2020s | 51 | #7,640 (2023) | #11,294 |
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.
Whisper in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 45,808 of them was named Whisper, which outranked 80.8% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,036Whittney39
- #3,036Zaida39
- #3,036Zakia39
- #3,105Whisper38
- #3,105Alexiss38
- #3,105Alijah38
- #3,105Anitra38
- #3,161Addyson37
- #3,161Alasia37
- #3,161Alysse37
Tied with 55 names at #3,105; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.