Favor
#4,588 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Favor has been given to 656 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #4,588 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 31 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 79% girls, 21% boys all-time.
Babies named Favor, 2025
1 in 111,000
Favor 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Favor over time
In 2025, Favor went to 77% girls and 23% 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 Favor?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 111,000
- 30 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 53,600
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,588
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 76,598 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Favor 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Favor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Favors were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Favor was born before 2015 — so the typical Favor is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 45.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 517
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 45.1% of all recorded uses (233).
Is Favor 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
- −86
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,739
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +438
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.11×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 96.8%
- Peak was 2021 (31)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.4% average annual change
Spellings of Favor
Favor is not the most common spelling — Flor is, with 34.0% against Favor's 2.3%.
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 Favor is used
Across 1910–2025, Favor was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 339,376 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Maryland1 in —
- 2North Carolina1 in —
- 3Texas1 in —
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. Favor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Favor around the world
Where Favor 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 & Wales2011–2011#4,764in 2011
- France2025–2025#6,910in 2025
- Canada2018–2018#3,384in 2018
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Favor by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Favor
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Favor
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.