Void
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Void has been given to 33 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1917, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 73% boys, 27% girls all-time.
Babies named Void, 2004
1 in 546,000
Void 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Void over time
In 2004, Void went to 56% girls and 44% boys.
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 Void?
Void had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2004
- 1 in 546,000
- 7 of 3,820,181 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 283,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2004
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 378,279 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Void sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2004 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 378,279 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Void. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Voids were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Void was born before 1921 — so the typical Void is around 104 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 41.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 29.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 7
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 41.7% of all recorded uses (10).
Is Void 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 1917 (7)
- Years since peak
- 108
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Void
Void is not the most common spelling — Todd is, with 64.4% against Void's <0.01%.
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 Void is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Void was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,143,175 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Ohio1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Void has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Void is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Void was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 830,861 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Ohio1 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. Void has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Void by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Void
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Void
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.