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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 14,180 of them was named Bowie, which outranked 90.0% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,743Sarina115
- #1,743Skylah115
- #1,743Yitty115
- #1,752Bowie114
- #1,752Aylani114
- #1,752Destinee114
- #1,752Divine114
- #1,763Bryn113
- #1,763Jocelynn113
- #1,763Lakyn113
Tied with 10 names at #1,752; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 9,807 of them was named Bowie, which outranked 92.0% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,111Sevyn177
- #1,111Tzvi177
- #1,111Zackary177
- #1,119Bowie176
- #1,119Javon176
- #1,119Natanael176
- #1,119Payton176
- #1,124Azriel175
- #1,124Benton175
- #1,124Kartier175
Tied with 4 names at #1,119; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.