Rumor
#16,796 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rumor has been given to 109 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #16,796 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Rumor, 2025
1 in 663,000
Rumor 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Rumor?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #16,796
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rumor 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rumor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rumors were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rumor was born before 2016 — so the typical Rumor is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 37.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 88.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 109
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 37.6% of all recorded uses (41).
Is Rumor 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
- −6,671
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −5,867
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,008
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.63×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 50.0%
- Peak was 2019 (10)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.3% average annual change
Spellings of Rumor
Rumor is not the most common spelling — Amor is, with 36.8% against Rumor's 1.8%.
Rumor by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rumor
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rumor
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.