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Acacia

#2,485 in 2025Girls' name

Thorn, point

Acacia has been given to 4,310 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #2,485 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 143 recorded.

Babies named Acacia, 2025

1 in 46,700

Acacia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Acacia: meaning, origin, and history

Thorn, point

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Acacia means

Acacia means “thorn, point”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,310 girls were recorded with the name Acacia between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 143 in 2002; its best national rank was #1,310 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,216 in 2020 to #2,485 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,950 in 2015 to #2,485 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Acacia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 46,700
71 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 22,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,485
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
32,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Acacia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 32,366 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Acacia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Acacias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Acacia was born before 2002 — so the typical Acacia is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,310
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 27.7% of all recorded uses (1,193).

Is Acacia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+237
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−269
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−535
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
49.7%
Peak was 2002 (143)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,310
1998

Spellings of Acacia

Acacia is not the most common spelling — Alicia is, with 66.2% against Acacia's 1.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Acacia is used

Across 2016–2025, Acacia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 30,577 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 16,667
  2. 2Oregon1 in 16,667
  3. 3Colorado1 in 20,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 33,333
  5. 5Texas1 in 33,333
  6. 6Indiana1 in 50,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 50,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Acacia around the world

Where Acacia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • France
    2003–2025
    #4,567
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1984–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Acacia

People whose public names include Acacia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Acacia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,485
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 269
Best rank ever
#1,310
1998
Peak year
2002
143 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,310
Count in 2025
71

Names similar to Acacia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

EliciaAcadiaGreciaStaciaGraciaAlyciaAleciaDeliciaAniciaAnaliciaTriciaElyciaKeciaFranciaHortenciaVeneciaAnastaciaDaciaValenciaLaticiaFeleciaLucreciaLatriciaAlexcia

Names with a curve like Acacia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Acacia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Acacia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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