Psalms
#3,359 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Psalms has been given to 284 babies in the U.S. since 2013. In 2025 it ranked #3,359 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 35 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 54% boys, 46% girls all-time.
Babies named Psalms, 2025
1 in 94,700
Psalms 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Psalms over time
In 2025, Psalms went to 24% girls and 76% 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 Psalms?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 94,700
- 35 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 48,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,359
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 65,655 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Psalms 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 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Psalms. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Psalmss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Psalms was born before 2023 — so the typical Psalms is around 2 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 74.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 153
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 74.5% of all recorded uses (114).
Is Psalms 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
- +686
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +5,981
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (35)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.0% average annual change
Spellings of Psalms
Psalms is not the most common spelling — Psalm is, with 83.3% against Psalms's 16.7%.
- Psalm83.3%761
- Psalms16.7%153
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 Psalms is used
Across 1910–2025, Psalms was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,131,512 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Psalms has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Psalms around the world
Where Psalms 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 & Wales2019–2020#3,848in 2020
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Psalms by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Psalms
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Psalms
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.