Poet
#5,360 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Poet has been given to 373 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #5,360 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 24 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 64% girls, 36% boys all-time.
Babies named Poet, 2025
1 in 138,000
Poet 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Poet over time
In 2025, Poet went to 53% girls and 47% 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 Poet?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 138,000
- 24 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 67,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,360
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 95,747 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Poet 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Poet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Poets were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Poet was born before 2018 — so the typical Poet is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 41.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 239
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 41.8% of all recorded uses (100).
Is Poet 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
- +981
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +4,730
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +4,631
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.18×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (24)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.5% average annual change
Spellings of Poet
Poet is not the most common spelling — Zoe is, with 44.4% against Poet'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 Poet is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Poet was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,601,278 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Poet has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Poet is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Poet was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Poet has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Poet around the world
Where Poet 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 & Wales2021–2025#5,927in 2025
- Canada2009–2021#3,354in 2021
- South Australia2009–2009#818in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Poet by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Poet
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Poet
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.