Bam
#12,268 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bam has been given to 85 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #12,268 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Bam, 2025
1 in 663,000
Bam 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Bam?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #12,268
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bam 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bams were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bam was born before 2015 — so the typical Bam is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 45.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 85
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 45.9% of all recorded uses (39).
Is Bam 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
- +294
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,593
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.71×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 38.5%
- Peak was 2007 (13)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.9% average annual change
Bam around the world
Where Bam 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 & Wales2007–2024#5,120in 2024
- South Australia2007–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Bam by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bam
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bam
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.