Testimony

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Meaning not yet documented

Testimony has been given to 33 babies in the U.S. since 2016. 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 2017, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 85% girls, 15% boys all-time.

Babies named Testimony, 2020

1 in 418,000

Testimony over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Testimony over time

In 2020, Testimony went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

20162020

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

How common is Testimony?

Testimony had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 202,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,591 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Testimony 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 2020 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 289,591 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Testimony. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Testimonys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Testimony was born before 2017 — so the typical Testimony is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
71.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
28
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Choose a decade

2010s — 71.4% of all recorded uses (20).

Is Testimony 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2017 (8)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#12,043
2020

Testimony around the world

Where Testimony 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
    2011–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    2015–2025
    #7,240
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Testimony by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,043
2020
Peak year
2017
8 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
28
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,925
2019
Peak year
2019
5 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Testimony

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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