Whisper
#13,108 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Whisper has been given to 792 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #13,108 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 40 recorded.
Babies named Whisper, 2025
1 in 474,000
Whisper 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Whisper?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #13,108
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Whisper sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Whisper. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Whispers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Whisper was born before 2001 — so the typical Whisper is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 31.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 51.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 792
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 31.2% of all recorded uses (247).
Is Whisper 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
- +2,034
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,871
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,003
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.64×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 17.5%
- Peak was 1996 (40)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.9% average annual change
Where Whisper is used
Across 1910–2025, Whisper was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,340,493 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Michigan1 in —
- 3Oklahoma1 in —
- 4Washington1 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. Whisper has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Whisper by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Whisper
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Whisper
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.