Champion

#3,757 for boys in 2025, 29 births

Peak · boys
2019 · 71 births
Debut · boys
9 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
744
since 1914

Champion over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Champion has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202021peak #2,042, 2019boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
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2025#3,75729
2024#2,78946
2023#2,54152
2022#2,16867
2021#2,32159
2020#2,13965
2019#2,04271
2018#2,57949
2017#2,89141
2016#3,88327
2015#4,17924
2014#4,26323
2013#4,18023
2012#3,89426
2011#3,99425
2010#9,6937
2009#4,74820
2008#6,76312
2007#8,9158
2006#9,5857
2005#9,1157
2004#9,9486
2003#8,6437
2002#8,4567
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First appearance
1914

The first year at least five boys were named Champion! It came in at #2,271, and was given to 9 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1915–1999, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Champion is popular in 2021

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedNHWashington: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedWAIdaho: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedNDMinnesota: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedMNIllinois: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedILWisconsin: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedWIMichigan: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedMINew York: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedNYMassachusetts: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedMARhode Island: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedRIOregon: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedORNevada: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedNVWyoming: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedIAIndiana: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedINOhio: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedOHPennsylvania: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedPANew Jersey: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedNJConnecticut: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedCTCalifornia: #2,214 for boys · 6 births · 1 in 31,563 boysCAUtah: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedUTColorado: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedCONebraska: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedNEMissouri: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedMOKentucky: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedWVVirginia: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedVAMaryland: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedMDDelaware: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedDEArizona: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedAZNew Mexico: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedNMKansas: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedKSArkansas: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedARTennessee: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedTNNorth Carolina: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedNCSouth Carolina: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedDCOklahoma: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedOKLouisiana: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedLAMississippi: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedMSAlabama: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedALGeorgia: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedGAHawaii: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedHITexas: #2,196 for boys · 6 births · 1 in 28,521 boysTXFlorida: fewer than 5 boys named Champion, so not publishedFL

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Top states · boys
  1. Texas#2,196 · 1 in 28,521
  2. California#2,214 · 1 in 31,563

Best ever in a state: #931 in Georgia, 2018.

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See more about Champion
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 968 spots since 2024 (#2,789 → #3,757)
  • 1,618 spots since 2020 (#2,139 → #3,757)
  • 422 spots since 2015 (#4,179 → #3,757)
Rise & fade · boys
105 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1914
  • Peaked 2019 at #2,042 (71 births)
  • Births halved by 2025, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 25,271
  • Highest: 1 in 25,271 boys born in 2019 were named Champion (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 58,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 42.7% of all boys named Champion (318) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s14#2,271 (1914)#3,084
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1970s5#6,056 (1979)#6,056
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1990s10#8,868 (1995)#9,390
2000s81#4,748 (2009)#8,265
2010s316#2,042 (2019)#4,160
2020s318#2,139 (2020)#2,619

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.

Champion in 2021

boys
#2,321
59 births · 1 in 29,652 boys

Top boys' names in 2021

  1. #1Liam20,424
  2. #2Noah18,919
  3. #3Oliver14,713
  4. #4Elijah12,845
  5. #5James12,474
  6. #6William12,170
  7. #7Benjamin11,895
  8. #8Lucas11,584
  9. #9Henry11,370
  10. #10Theodore9,600
  11. #2,321Champion59
More about 2021

boys

1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 29,652 of them was named Champion, which outranked 83.5% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Champion
  1. #2,300Rayaan60
  2. #2,300Reilly60
  3. #2,300Tai60
  4. #2,321Champion59
  5. #2,321Aarin59
  6. #2,321Antoni59
  7. #2,321Bohdi59
  8. #2,349Abdullahi58
  9. #2,349Branden58
  10. #2,349Devan58

Tied with 27 names at #2,321; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2020
Risers
  1. ↑ 536Amiri#1,295 → #759
  2. ↑ 438Eliam#1,177 → #739
  3. ↑ 343Colter#972 → #629
  4. ↑ 333Ozzy#1,046 → #713
  5. ↑ 299Loyal#1,053 → #754
Fallers
  1. ↓ 352Jaxtyn#585 → #937
  2. ↓ 259Karsyn#698 → #957
  3. ↓ 231Xzavier#976 → #1,207
  4. ↓ 208Tristen#846 → #1,054
  5. ↓ 208Willie#992 → #1,200

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2021 →