Son
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Son has been given to 1,066 babies in the U.S. since 1884. 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 1982, with 41 recorded.
Babies named Son, 2019
1 in 694,000
Son 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Son?
Son had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 694,000
- 5 of 3,472,229 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 359,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 481,354 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Son sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Son. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Son was born before 1980 — so the typical Son is around 45 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 27.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 15.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 612
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 27.1% of all recorded uses (288).
Is Son 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1982 (41)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.3% average annual change
Where Son is used
Across 1910–2025, Son was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 213,901 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Alabama1 in —
- 3Georgia1 in —
- 4Louisiana1 in —
- 5Mississippi1 in —
- 6Tennessee1 in —
- 7Texas1 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. Son has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Son around the world
Where Son 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 & Wales1997–2005#3,849in 2005
- France1977–2014#6,114in 2014
- South Australia1982–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Son by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Son
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Son
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.