Believe
#11,092 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Believe has been given to 117 babies in the U.S. since 2014. In 2025 it ranked #11,092 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 68% girls, 32% boys all-time.
Babies named Believe, 2025
1 in 414,000
Believe 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Believe over time
In 2025, Believe went to 62% girls and 38% 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 Believe?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,092
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Believe 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Believe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Believes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Believe was born before 2019 — so the typical Believe is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 60.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 80
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 60.0% of all recorded uses (48).
Is Believe 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
- −2,051
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 61.5%
- Peak was 2018 (13)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.7% average annual change
Spellings of Believe
Believe is not the most common spelling — Genieve is, with 87.0% against Believe's 13.0%.
- Genieve87.0%536
- Believe13.0%80
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.
Believe around the world
Where Believe 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.
- France2008–2023#6,843in 2023
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Believe by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Believe
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Believe
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.