Rare Girl Names
Every name here was given to fewer than 100 girls in the United States in 2025 — that's the definition, with the real count next to each name, so "rare" is a fact rather than a vibe.
- Rare names in use
- 15,352
- of 17,293 girls’ names listed
- Babies with one
- 17.4%
- of girls born in 2025
- What counts as rare
- < 100
- babies — under 1 in 16,072 girls
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98#1,965 | Down 419 rank positions in five years | 1959 | |||
| 98#1,973 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 96#1,999 | Down 451 rank positions in five years | 1982 | |||
| 97#1,985 | Down 129 rank positions in five years | 1970 | |||
| 99#1,948 | Down 244 rank positions in five years | 1952 | |||
| 99#1,942 | Down 524 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 97#1,981 | Down 502 rank positions in five years | 1975 | |||
| 98#1,980 | Down 624 rank positions in five years | 1982 | |||
| 96#1,997 | Down 560 rank positions in five years | 1989 | |||
| 98#1,971 | Up 1,688 rank positions in five years | 1926 | |||
| 97#1,986 | Up 1,501 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 98#1,966 | Down 963 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 98#1,969 | Down 657 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 98#1,967 | Down 296 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 96#2,001 | Down 432 rank positions in five years | 1959 | |||
| 97#1,982 | Down 159 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 98#1,979 | Down 313 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 99#1,956 | Down 291 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 99#1,951 | Down 732 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 99#1,949 | Down 513 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 98#1,978 | Down 478 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 97#1,987 | Up 288 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 99#1,950 | Down 506 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 98#1,975 | Down 73 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 97#1,988 | Down 446 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 99#1,960 | Up 535 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 97#1,983 | Up 194 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 98#1,964 | Up 295 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 99#1,952 | Up 1,170 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 97#1,984 | Down 338 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 98#1,974 | Down 280 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 98#1,972 | Up 516 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 99#1,945 | Up 137 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 99#1,954 | Up 281 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 99#1,959 | Up 255 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 98#1,963 | Up 209 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 99#1,946 | Up 608 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 99#1,947 | Down 216 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 98#1,970 | Up 1,392 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 99#1,944 | Up 1,121 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 97#1,989 | Up 326 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 99#1,961 | Up 1,374 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 98#1,962 | Up 357 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 99#1,943 | Up 656 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 99#1,953 | Up 921 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 98#1,976 | Up 731 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 98#1,977 | Up 1,293 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 99#1,955 | Up 4,883 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 99#1,957 | Up 8,141 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 99#1,958 | new | 2024 |
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Rare girls’ names on the way up
Climbing fastest over the last five years while staying under the 100-baby line — catch them before everyone else does.
Vintage girls’ names almost nobody uses now
Each was a top-1,000 name before 1985 and is down to fewer than 100 babies a year — the deepest well of familiar-but-unused names there is.
Brand-new girls’ names
First recorded anywhere in the data within the last 3 years — coinages so new they have no history yet.
Sources & methodology
Counts come from official births data for 2025. “Rare” here means fewer than 100 applications that year; the ranked lists also require at least 300 all-time uses since 1880, which keeps one-off spellings out (the brand-new list waives that floor by design — a new coinage can’t have a history). Names given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year aren’t published at all, so the truly rarest names are invisible to everyone, including us. Counts are card applications rather than births, and a rare name is “uncommon”, never “invalid”.