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Spirit

#5,214 in 2025Girls' name

Breath, energy

Spirit has been given to 873 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #5,214 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 57 recorded.

Babies named Spirit, 2025

1 in 133,000

Spirit over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Spirit: meaning, origin, and history

Breath, energy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Spirit means

Spirit means “breath, energy”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 857 girls were recorded with the name Spirit between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 57 in 2003; its best national rank was #2,763 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,645 in 2020 to #5,214 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,705 in 2015 to #5,214 in 2025.

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Spirit between 2010 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2020; its best national rank was #11,828 in 2020.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Spirit?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 64,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,214
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Spirit sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Spirit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Spirits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Spirit was born before 2010 — so the typical Spirit is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
39.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
857
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Choose a decade

2000s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (335).

Is Spirit 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
−562
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+431
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−509
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.9%
Peak was 2003 (57)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,763
2003

Spellings of Spirit

Spirit is not the most common spelling — Siri is, with 58.4% against Spirit's 21.5%.

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.

Where Spirit is used

Across 1910–2025, Spirit was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,487,853 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

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. Spirit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Spirit around the world

Where Spirit 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 & Wales
    2005–2008
    #5,545
    in 2008
  • Canada
    2007–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Spirit by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,214
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 431
Best rank ever
#2,763
2003
Peak year
2003
57 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
857
Count in 2025
25

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,828
2020
Peak year
2020
6 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Spirit

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Spirit

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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