Eternity
#2,298 for girls in 2025, 79 births
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 99 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,225since 1990
Eternity over time
Rank among girls' names. Eternity has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,298 | 79 |
| 2024 | #2,203 | 86 |
| 2023 | #2,352 | 77 |
| 2022 | #2,604 | 67 |
| 2021 | #1,971 | 99 |
| 2020 | #2,341 | 75 |
| 2019 | #2,217 | 83 |
| 2018 | #2,275 | 80 |
| 2017 | #3,145 | 51 |
| 2016 | #2,343 | 80 |
| 2015 | #2,209 | 85 |
| 2014 | #2,010 | 98 |
| 2013 | #2,439 | 74 |
| 2012 | #2,315 | 81 |
| 2011 | #2,238 | 84 |
| 2010 | #2,185 | 89 |
| 2009 | #2,005 | 103 |
| 2008 | #2,218 | 89 |
| 2007 | #2,311 | 83 |
| 2006 | #2,031 | 97 |
| 2005 | #3,126 | 50 |
| 2004 | #2,742 | 59 |
| 2003 | #2,840 | 54 |
| 2002 | #2,414 | 66 |
| 2001 | #3,198 | 43 |
| 2000 | #3,216 | 42 |
| 1999 | #3,188 | 40 |
| 1998 | #3,173 | 39 |
| 1997 | #3,105 | 38 |
| 1996 | #3,237 | 36 |
| 1995 | #3,285 | 34 |
| 1994 | #4,016 | 26 |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 |
| 1992 | #6,314 | 14 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Eternity! It came in at #12,958, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1990–1991, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Eternity is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#950 · 1 in 5,420
- North Carolina#1,120 · 1 in 6,439
- Florida#1,849 · 1 in 13,933
- Texas#1,893 · 1 in 14,134
- California#1,921 · 1 in 15,866
Best ever in a state: #737 in South Carolina, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #950 | 9 | 1 in 5,420 |
| North Carolina | #1,120 | 7 | 1 in 6,439 |
| Florida | #1,849 | 6 | 1 in 13,933 |
| Texas | #1,893 | 11 | 1 in 14,134 |
| California | #1,921 | 11 | 1 in 15,866 |
| New York | #2,090 | 5 | 1 in 16,250 |
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See more about Eternity
- 95 spots since 2024 (#2,203 → #2,298)
- 43 spots since 2020 (#2,341 → #2,298)
- 89 spots since 2015 (#2,209 → #2,298)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2021 at #1,971 (99 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,574 girls born in 2021 were named Eternity (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,345 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 36.2% of all girls named Eternity (805) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 251 | #3,105 (1997) | #5,869 |
| 2000s | 686 | #2,005 (2009) | #2,610 |
| 2010s | 805 | #2,010 (2014) | #2,338 |
| 2020s | 483 | #1,971 (2021) | #2,295 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Eternity in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
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1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 16,574 of them was named Eternity, which outranked 88.8% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,955Stormy100
- #1,955Yasmeen100
- #1,955Zayda100
- #1,971Eternity99
- #1,971Alyna99
- #1,971Ayda99
- #1,971Dawson99
- #1,980Amila98
- #1,980Avaleigh98
- #1,980Eleanore98
Tied with 8 names at #1,971; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.