Bee
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · Last seen for boys in 2000 at #9,112
Given to boys 60.2% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1881 · 10 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,023since 1881
Bee over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | — | |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | — | |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | — | |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | — | |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | — | |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | — | |
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | — | |
| 2017 | — | — | ||
| 2016 | — | — | ||
| 2015 | — | — | ||
| 2014 | — | — | ||
| 2013 | — | — | ||
| 2012 | — | — | ||
| 2011 | — | — | ||
| 2010 | — | — | ||
| 2009 | — | — | ||
| 2008 | — | — | ||
| 2007 | — | — | ||
| 2006 | — | — | ||
| 2005 | — | — | ||
| 2004 | — | — | ||
| 2003 | — | — | ||
| 2002 | — | — | ||
| 2001 | — | — | ||
| 2000 | — | #9,112 | 6 | |
| 1999 | — | #9,912 | 5 | |
| 1998 | — | #7,560 | 7 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,877 | 17 | |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | #3,678 | 18 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #2,762 | 26 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #3,030 | 23 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #2,209 | 35 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | #2,532 | 28 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #1,895 | 41 |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 | #1,968 | 38 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | #2,359 | 28 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #2,765 | 20 |
| 1987 | — | #2,641 | 20 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,161 | 26 | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #2,293 | 23 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #2,098 | 25 |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 | #2,272 | 22 |
| 1982 | — | #1,815 | 31 | |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 | #1,602 | 37 |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #1,695 | 34 |
| 1979 | — | #3,168 | 13 | |
| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | — | — | ||
| 1969 | — | — | ||
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| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | — | |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | — | |
| 1954 | — | #3,452 | 6 | |
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | #3,316 | 6 | |
| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 | — | |
| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,252 | 8 | — | |
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | — | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | #2,951 | 7 | |
| 1934 | #2,741 | 10 | — | |
| 1933 | #2,868 | 9 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,901 | 6 | #3,776 | 5 |
| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 | — | |
| 1930 | — | #3,022 | 8 | |
| 1929 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
| 1927 | #3,284 | 9 | #3,451 | 7 |
| 1926 | #2,872 | 11 | #2,302 | 13 |
| 1925 | #2,939 | 11 | #2,936 | 9 |
| 1924 | #2,809 | 12 | #2,347 | 13 |
| 1923 | #3,350 | 9 | #2,224 | 14 |
| 1922 | #2,780 | 12 | #4,307 | 5 |
| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 | #2,376 | 13 |
| 1920 | #2,463 | 14 | #2,052 | 16 |
| 1919 | #1,921 | 19 | #1,811 | 18 |
| 1918 | #1,805 | 21 | #1,710 | 20 |
| 1917 | #1,431 | 27 | #1,693 | 19 |
| 1916 | #1,581 | 23 | #1,698 | 18 |
| 1915 | #1,622 | 21 | #1,968 | 14 |
| 1914 | #1,665 | 16 | #2,271 | 9 |
| 1913 | #1,766 | 12 | #1,365 | 15 |
| 1912 | #1,297 | 17 | #1,619 | 10 |
| 1911 | #1,300 | 13 | #982 | 12 |
| 1910 | #1,335 | 12 | #1,193 | 8 |
| 1909 | #1,607 | 8 | #1,440 | 5 |
| 1908 | #1,135 | 13 | #779 | 12 |
| 1907 | #1,289 | 10 | #735 | 13 |
| 1906 | #1,416 | 8 | #1,004 | 7 |
| 1905 | #1,538 | 7 | #1,091 | 6 |
| 1904 | #1,251 | 9 | #647 | 13 |
| 1903 | #1,204 | 9 | #846 | 8 |
| 1902 | #1,024 | 12 | — | |
| 1901 | #1,067 | 10 | #779 | 8 |
| 1900 | #1,053 | 13 | #836 | 10 |
| 1899 | #1,394 | 6 | — | |
| 1898 | #1,700 | 5 | #744 | 9 |
| 1897 | #1,385 | 6 | #787 | 8 |
| 1896 | #1,122 | 9 | #778 | 9 |
| 1895 | #1,299 | 7 | #872 | 7 |
| 1894 | — | #787 | 8 | |
| 1893 | — | #836 | 7 | |
| 1892 | — | #956 | 6 | |
| 1891 | — | #564 | 11 | |
| 1890 | #1,099 | 7 | #739 | 8 |
| 1889 | — | #581 | 11 | |
| 1888 | #837 | 10 | #648 | 10 |
| 1887 | — | #921 | 5 | |
| 1886 | #1,108 | 5 | — | |
| 1885 | — | #936 | 5 | |
| 1884 | — | #971 | 5 | |
| 1883 | #817 | 6 | #720 | 7 |
| 1882 | — | #837 | 6 | |
| 1881 | — | #563 | 10 | |
| 1880 | — | — | ||
First appearance
1881
The first year at least five boys were named Bee! It came in at #563, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1884–1887, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Bee
Momentum · boys
Faded out
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2000
- Biggest jump: 273 spots in 1888 (#921 → #648)
- Biggest drop: 661 spots in 1909 (#779 → #1,440)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
- Debuted 1881
- Peaked 1881 at #563 (10 births)
- Births halved by 1884, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 24 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 1887–1898
Share of babies · boys
1 in 9,199
- Highest: 1 in 9,199 boys born in 1891 were named Bee (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 327,334 boys born in 2000 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #563 in 1881, was only 1 in 10,074 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1980s
- 26.0% of all boys named Bee (266) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2018
- Mostly boys until 2017, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 59 | #563 (1881) | #772 |
| 1890s | 73 | #564 (1891) | #785 |
| 1900s | 82 | #647 (1904) | #906 |
| 1910s | 143 | #982 (1911) | #1,631 |
| 1920s | 101 | #2,052 (1920) | #2,971 |
| 1930s | 25 | #2,951 (1935) | #3,307 |
| 1940s | 11 | #3,316 (1948) | #3,421 |
| 1950s | 6 | #3,452 (1954) | #3,452 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 13 | #3,168 (1979) | #3,168 |
| 1980s | 266 | #1,602 (1981) | #2,170 |
| 1990s | 238 | #1,895 (1991) | #3,942 |
| 2000s | 6 | #9,112 (2000) | #9,112 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Bee in 1881
boys
#563
10 births · 1 in 10,074 boys
Top boys' names in 1881
More about 1881
boys
100,735 boys got a published name in 1881; 1 in 10,074 of them was named Bee, which outranked 43.5% of the 996 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 43.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).