Sparkle
#16,960 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sparkle has been given to 1,641 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #16,960 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1979, with 124 recorded.
Babies named Sparkle, 2025
1 in 663,000
Sparkle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sparkle?
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
- #16,960
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sparkle 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 Sparkle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sparkles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sparkle was born before 1986 — so the typical Sparkle is around 39 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 43.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 15.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,636
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 43.3% of all recorded uses (711).
Is Sparkle 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
- −3,651
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,637
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.71×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 4.0%
- Peak was 1979 (124)
- Years since peak
- 46
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.6% average annual change
Where Sparkle is used
Across 1910–2025, Sparkle was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 144,896 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 in 50,000
- 2California1 in 100,000
- 3Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 4Michigan1 in 100,000
- 5Missouri1 in 100,000
- 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 7New York1 in 100,000
- 8Ohio1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Sparkle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sparkle around the world
Where Sparkle 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 & Wales2014–2014#5,691in 2014
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Sparkle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sparkle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sparkle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.