Anthem
#6,829 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Anthem has been given to 244 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #6,829 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 21 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 77% boys, 23% girls all-time.
Babies named Anthem, 2025
1 in 276,000
Anthem over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Anthem over time
In 2025, Anthem went to 40% girls and 60% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Anthem?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 276,000
- 12 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 142,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,829
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Anthem sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anthem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Anthems were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Anthem was born before 2020 — so the typical Anthem is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 51.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 187
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 51.3% of all recorded uses (96).
Is Anthem 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
- −909
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −833
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +695
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.20×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 57.1%
- Peak was 2023 (21)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.5% average annual change
Spellings of Anthem
Anthem is not the most common spelling — Arther is, with 53.7% against Anthem's 2.0%.
Where Anthem is used
Across 1910–2025, Anthem was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 988,020 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Anthem has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Anthem by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Anthem
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Anthem
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.