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Happy

#10,045 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Chance, luck

Happy has been given to 580 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #10,045 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1936, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 53% boys, 47% girls all-time.

Babies named Happy, 2025

1 in 474,000

Happy over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Happy over time

In 2025, Happy went to 59% girls and 41% boys.

19122025

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.

Happy: meaning, origin, and history

Chance, luck

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Happy means

Happy means “chance, luck”.

Origin, language, and formation

Happy is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 310 boys were recorded with the name Happy between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1936; its best national rank was #1,918 in 1936.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,709 in 2020 to #10,045 in 2025.

In the United States, 270 girls were recorded with the name Happy between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1975; its best national rank was #3,677 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #15,971 in 2020 to #9,688 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #17,419 in 2015 to #9,688 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Happy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,045
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Happy sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Happy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Happys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Happy was born before 1947 — so the typical Happy is around 78 today.

Median birth year
1947
About 78 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
18.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
149
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1930s — 18.7% of all recorded uses (58).

Is Happy 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
+1,372
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,336
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 1936 (14)
Years since peak
89
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,918
1936

Spellings of Happy

Happy is not the most common spelling — Harry is, with 97.8% against Happy's 0.07%.

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 Happy is used

Across 1910–2025, Happy was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 229,791 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 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. Happy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Happy around the world

Where Happy 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.

  • France
    2018–2022
    #7,126
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Happy by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,045
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,336
Best rank ever
#1,918
1936
Peak year
1936
14 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
310
Count in 2025
7

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,688
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,283
Best rank ever
#3,677
1975
Peak year
1975
18 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
270
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Happy

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

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Sibling names for Happy

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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