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Bambi

#6,580 in 2025Girls' name

Young girl

Bambi has been given to 5,261 babies in the U.S. since 1943. In 2025 it ranked #6,580 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1979, with 327 recorded.

Babies named Bambi, 2025

1 in 195,000

Bambi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bambi: meaning, origin, and history

Young girl

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bambi means

Bambi means “young girl”, associated with bambina.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Italian Bambi, from bambina (“young girl”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Bambi (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Bambi is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,261 girls were recorded with the name Bambi between 1943 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 327 in 1979; its best national rank was #562 in 1979.

How common is Bambi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,580
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bambi 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bambi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bambis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bambi was born before 1969 — so the typical Bambi is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
25.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,196
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 25.8% of all recorded uses (1,356).

Is Bambi 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
+3,818
Places climbed
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
5.2%
Peak was 1979 (327)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#562
1979

Spellings of Bambi

Bambi is not the most common spelling — Tami is, with 25.0% against Bambi's 3.5%.

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 Bambi is used

Across 1910–2025, Bambi was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 48,127 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 20,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in 25,000
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 33,333
  5. 5Indiana1 in 33,333
  6. 6Michigan1 in 33,333
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 33,333

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. Bambi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bambi around the world

Where Bambi 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
    2012–2025
    #1,166
    in 2025
  • France
    1983–2025
    #3,558
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1958–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Bambi

People whose public names include Bambi, 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.

Bambi in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Bambi. Linked forms have their own page here.

BamBambieBambinaBampisBambino

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Bambi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,580
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#562
1979
Peak year
1979
327 that year
First recorded
1943
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,261
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Bambi

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

BamaBambieBammaTambiNiambiBambyThembiBambinaAmbiNsombiCambi

Names with a curve like Bambi

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

LianeJoanieJaneenRenitaSherieLissaGregorySharlaMarkKandyCharisseKevin

Sibling names for Bambi

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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