US birth records, 1890 to 2025
Extinct names
48 names went to at least 5,000 US babies in their strongest decade and have no published row for 2025 at all. Vicki is the largest: 72,108 births in the 1950s, and nothing on the 2025 list. That means fewer than five babies of either sex, not none: the agency holds those counts back.
The names
How this list is made
A name is on this page when at least 5,000 US babies were given it in its best decade and the published 2025 record carries no row for it, for girls or for boys. Order: the biggest peak first.
A missing row is a publication rule, not a count of zero. We say what the record does and does not carry, and we leave the reasons a name faded alone.
One caution about the 2020s: here they cover 2020 to 2025, six years rather than ten, because that is as far as the record goes.
These are United States figures. The Social Security Administration publishes the names given to babies born in each year, and it holds back any name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year, so a name can be missing from a year without having gone unused.
The cut-offs on this page are ours, not the agency’s.
Only names that have a page here are listed, so every name on this page opens onto its full record.
Source: US Social Security Administration, the names given to babies born in each year through 2025.