Spike
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Spike has been given to 128 babies in the U.S. since 1942. 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 1958, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Spike, 2021
1 in 678,000
Spike 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Spike?
Spike had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 678,000
- 5 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 350,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,949 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Spike sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Spike. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Spikes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Spike was born before 1965 — so the typical Spike is around 60 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 29.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 39.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 117
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 29.7% of all recorded uses (38).
Is Spike 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
- 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 1958 (10)
- Years since peak
- 67
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.1% average annual change
Spellings of Spike
Spike is not the most common spelling — Mike is, with 94.5% against Spike's 0.06%.
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.
Spike around the world
Where Spike 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 & Wales1996–2024#2,922in 2024
- Scotland2010–2010#638in 2010
- South Australia2012–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Spike by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Spike
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Spike
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.