Choice
#5,901 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Choice has been given to 300 babies in the U.S. since 1910. In 2025 it ranked #5,901 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 15 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% boys, 9% girls all-time.
Babies named Choice, 2025
1 in 221,000
Choice 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Choice over time
In 2025, Choice 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 Choice?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 221,000
- 15 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 114,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,901
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 153,194 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Choice 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Choice. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Choices were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Choice was born before 1942 — so the typical Choice is around 83 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 23.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 37.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 125
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 23.1% of all recorded uses (63).
Is Choice 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
- +1,973
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,855
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (15)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.4% average annual change
Spellings of Choice
Choice is not the most common spelling — Chance is, with 83.5% against Choice's 0.42%.
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 Choice is used
Across 1910–2025, Choice was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,563,869 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Choice has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Choice by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Choice
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Choice
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.