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Unity

#4,537 in 2025Girls' name

English word name: unity

Unity has been given to 805 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #4,537 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 57 recorded.

Babies named Unity, 2025

1 in 107,000

Unity over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Unity: meaning, origin, and history

English word name: unity

English

What Unity means

Unity is documented as an English vocabulary word adopted as a personal name. Its immediate reference is the word unity; the cited entry discusses the word history separately from its use as a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Unity is used in English. Its origins include English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 805 girls were recorded with the name Unity between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 57 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,952 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,905 in 2020 to #4,537 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,116 in 2015 to #4,537 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Unity?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,537
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Unity 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Unity. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Unitys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Unity was born before 2015 — so the typical Unity is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
805
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Choose a decade

2010s — 32.5% of all recorded uses (262).

Is Unity 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
−506
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−632
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+579
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.15×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
54.4%
Peak was 2022 (57)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,952
2022

Spellings of Unity

Unity is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 90.2% against Unity's 0.34%.

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 Unity is used

Across 1910–2025, Unity was most concentrated in Nevada — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 562,812 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nevada1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Unity has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Unity around the world

Where Unity 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
    1996–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • Canada
    2012–2012
    #3,249
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1948–1948
    #369
    in 1948

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Unity by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,537
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 632
Best rank ever
#2,952
2022
Peak year
2022
57 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
805
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Unity

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

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Sibling names for Unity

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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