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Pocahontas

Girls' name

Little playful one

Pocahontas has been given to 217 babies in the U.S. since 1897. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1925, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Pocahontas, 2022

1 in 677,000

Pocahontas over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pocahontas: meaning, origin, and history

Little playful one

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pocahontas means

Pocahontas means “little playful one”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Pocahontas is used in Powhatan (Anglicized).

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 217 girls were recorded with the name Pocahontas between 1897 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1925; its best national rank was #1,150 in 1897.

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.

How common is Pocahontas?

Pocahontas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pocahontas 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pocahontas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pocahontass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pocahontas was born before 1923 — so the typical Pocahontas is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
31.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1920s — 31.8% of all recorded uses (69).

Is Pocahontas 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1925 (12)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,150
1897

Pocahontas by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,150
1897
Peak year
1925
12 that year
First recorded
1897
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
217
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Pocahontas

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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