Profit
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Profit has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1889. 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 1889, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Profit, 1889
1 in 57,800
Profit 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Profit?
Profit had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1889, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1889
- 1 in 57,800
- 5 of 288,932 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 22,100
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1889
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 40,056 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Profit sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1889 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 40,056 children born in 1889 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Profit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Profits were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Profit was born before 1889 — so the typical Profit is around 136 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1880s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1880s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Profit 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
- —
- 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 1889 (5)
- Years since peak
- 136
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Profit
Profit is not the most common spelling — Rohit is, with 77.2% against Profit's 0.20%.
Profit by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Profit
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Profit
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.