Apache
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Apache has been given to 26 babies in the U.S. since 1995. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1995, with 6 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 62% boys, 38% girls all-time.
Babies named Apache, 2007
1 in 800,000
Apache 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Apache over time
In 2007, Apache went to 0% girls and 100% 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 Apache?
Apache had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2007
- 1 in 800,000
- 5 of 3,997,748 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 415,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2007
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 554,207 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Apache sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Apache. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Apaches were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Apache was born before 2005 — so the typical Apache is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 62.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 16
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 62.5% of all recorded uses (10).
Is Apache 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1995 (6)
- Years since peak
- 30
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Apache
Apache is not the most common spelling — Cache is, with 51.9% against Apache's 0.83%.
Apache by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Apache
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Apache
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.