Pure
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Pure has been given to 70 babies in the U.S. since 2019. 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 2024, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 73% girls, 27% boys all-time.
Babies named Pure, 2024
1 in 304,000
Pure 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Pure over time
In 2024, Pure went to 65% girls and 35% 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 Pure?
Pure had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 304,000
- 11 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 147,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 210,642 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Pure sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 210,642 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pure. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Pures were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Pure was born before 2022 — so the typical Pure is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 82.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 51
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 82.4% of all recorded uses (42).
Is Pure 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 2024 (11)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.3% average annual change
Spellings of Pure
Pure is not the most common spelling — June is, with 45.9% against Pure's 0.01%.
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.
Pure by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Pure
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Pure
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.