Bowie
#1,733 for girls in 2025, 117 births · #1,227 for boys in 2025, 164 births
Given to boys 63.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 237 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,235since 1920
Bowie over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,733 | 117 | #1,227 | 164 |
| 2024 | #1,997 | 98 | #1,211 | 167 |
| 2023 | #1,645 | 126 | #1,098 | 194 |
| 2022 | #1,844 | 110 | #1,093 | 198 |
| 2021 | #1,524 | 138 | #951 | 237 |
| 2020 | #1,752 | 114 | #1,119 | 176 |
| 2019 | #1,864 | 108 | #1,202 | 159 |
| 2018 | #1,799 | 113 | #984 | 210 |
| 2017 | #2,221 | 85 | #1,191 | 156 |
| 2016 | #2,426 | 76 | #1,329 | 134 |
| 2015 | #3,595 | 43 | #2,386 | 54 |
| 2014 | #4,657 | 30 | #2,256 | 59 |
| 2013 | #3,573 | 43 | #3,864 | 26 |
| 2012 | #6,110 | 21 | #4,131 | 24 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 | #3,510 | 30 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | #2,730 | 44 |
| 2009 | #8,454 | 14 | #4,922 | 19 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #4,044 | 25 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #4,996 | 18 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #4,370 | 21 |
| 2005 | — | #5,875 | 13 | |
| 2004 | — | #7,536 | 9 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,245 | 9 | |
| 2002 | — | #8,456 | 7 | |
| 2001 | — | #9,243 | 6 | |
| 2000 | — | #9,112 | 6 | |
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| 1998 | — | #7,560 | 7 | |
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| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,992 | 7 | |
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| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
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| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
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| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bowie! It came in at #4,286, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1920–1974, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Bowie
- 16 spots since 2024 (#1,211 → #1,227)
- 108 spots since 2020 (#1,119 → #1,227)
- 1,159 spots since 2015 (#2,386 → #1,227)
- Biggest jump: 207 spots in 2018 (#1,191 → #984)
- Biggest drop: 218 spots in 2019 (#984 → #1,202)
- Debuted 1920
- Peaked 2021 at #951 (237 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 2018–2021
- Highest: 1 in 7,382 boys born in 2021 were named Bowie (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,415 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 50.8% of all boys named Bowie (1,136) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2013, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,286 (1920) | #4,286 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 15 | #3,941 (1975) | #4,248 |
| 1980s | 31 | #4,968 (1987) | #5,905 |
| 1990s | 19 | #6,992 (1995) | #7,856 |
| 2000s | 133 | #4,044 (2008) | #6,580 |
| 2010s | 896 | #984 (2018) | #2,358 |
| 2020s | 1,136 | #951 (2021) | #1,117 |
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.
Bowie in 1920
Top boys' names in 1920
More about 1920
boys
1,064,356 boys got a published name in 1920; 1 in 212,871 of them was named Bowie, which outranked 14.1% of the 4,989 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 703 names at #4,286; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.