Powers
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Powers has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1994, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Powers, 1996
1 in 729,000
Powers 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Powers?
Powers had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1996
- 1 in 729,000
- 5 of 3,646,048 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 379,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1996
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 505,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Powers sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 505,451 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Powers. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Powerss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Powers was born before 1994 — so the typical Powers is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 70.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 70.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 12
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 70.6% of all recorded uses (12).
Is Powers 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1994 (7)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Powers
Powers is not the most common spelling — Rogers is, with 75.8% against Powers's 0.18%.
Powers by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Powers
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Powers
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.