Infant

Last seen for girls in 2024 at #7,594 · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #5,659
Given to boys 52.0% of the time

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Peak · boys
1990 · 596 births
Debut · boys
11 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
4,230
since 1983

Infant over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201989peak #432, 1990peak #389, 1990girlsboys
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025
2024#7,59414#5,65916
2023#5,39023#4,88620
2022#5,98420#5,87415
2021#6,17419#4,93619
2020#7,21215#6,62012
2019#8,13813#5,55516
2018#8,14613#8,1549
2017#15,9025#8,1409
2016#10,8599#5,78915
2015#8,7448
2014#10,12910#7,56210
2013#10,7286
2012
2011#12,2875
2010#14,9596
2009#11,4599#12,4915
2008#13,8327#9,0198
2007#11,6309#8,1739
2006#7,42710
2005#2,27879#1,50695
2004#2,13584#1,159135
2003#2,08485#1,39196
2002#1,683109#1,139125
2001#1,654110#1,221109
2000#1,006210#765217
1999#658350#555361
1998#1,141166#946149
1997#1,110169#735208
1996#979194#750200
1995#867222#675244
1994#1,027180#752195
1993#968195#733202
1992#744284#565324
1991#1,000186#670229
1990#432582#389596
1989#567392#491376
1988#1,67177#1,13078
1987#4,85716#1,86434
1986#4,18619#2,51021
1985#4,12619#2,71018
1984#7,3988#2,95615
1983#3,63011
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First appearance
1983

The first year at least five boys were named Infant! It came in at #3,630, and was given to 11 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 2009–2012, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Infant
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
  • Biggest jump: 639 spots in 1989 (#1,130#491)
  • Biggest drop: 456 spots in 2001 (#765#1,221)
Rise & fade · boys
7 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1983
  • Peaked 1990 at #389 (596 births)
  • Births halved by 1991, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 12 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1989–2000
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,446
  • Highest: 1 in 3,446 boys born in 1990 were named Infant (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 107,680 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 64.0% of all boys named Infant (2,708) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2024
  • Mostly girls until 2023, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s553#491 (1989)#2,184
1990s2,708#389 (1990)#677
2000s809#765 (2000)#4,429
2010s78#5,555 (2019)#8,370
2020s82#4,886 (2023)#5,595

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.

Infant in 1989

girls
#567
392 births · 1 in 4,703 girls
boys
#491
376 births · 1 in 5,322 boys

Top girls' names in 1989

  1. #1Jessica47,887
  2. #2Ashley47,588
  3. #3Brittany37,792
  4. #4Amanda36,834
  5. #5Sarah27,797
  6. #6Samantha24,792
  7. #7Jennifer24,006
  8. #8Stephanie22,766
  9. #9Lauren21,065
  10. #10Elizabeth20,298
  11. #567Infant392

Top boys' names in 1989

  1. #1Michael65,415
  2. #2Christopher53,186
  3. #3Matthew45,375
  4. #4Joshua44,100
  5. #5David35,225
  6. #6Daniel35,007
  7. #7Andrew34,817
  8. #8Justin32,852
  9. #9James32,720
  10. #10Robert30,072
  11. #491Infant376
More about 1989

girls

1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 4,703 of them was named Infant, which outranked 96.1% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Infant
  1. #564Lucia396
  2. #565Lea395
  3. #566Lesley394
  4. #567Infant392
  5. #567Cristal392
  6. #569Julianna390
  7. #570Bobbie387
  8. #571Alysia386

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1988
Risers
  1. 9,523Audriana#10,386#863
  2. 7,504Martika#8,391#887
  3. 6,932Audrianna#7,691#759
  4. 3,972Elizabet#4,496#524
  5. 1,772Katherin#2,489#717
Fallers
  1. 539Diandra#905#1,444
  2. 524Taja#720#1,244
  3. 455Jonathan#999#1,454
  4. 445Katarina#960#1,405
  5. 397Caryn#816#1,213

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

boys

2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 5,322 of them was named Infant, which outranked 94.7% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Infant
  1. #488Davon384
  2. #489Ariel383
  3. #490Carson377
  4. #491Infant376
  5. #491Ashley376
  6. #493Kameron375
  7. #493Ramiro375
  8. #495Antwan373

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1988
Risers
  1. 6,314Kiara#7,270#956
  2. 5,870Alexande#6,426#556
  3. 1,111Kwame#1,768#657
  4. 766Kadeem#1,467#701
  5. 684Hakeem#1,270#586
Fallers
  1. 839Long#819#1,658
  2. 337Darell#981#1,318
  3. 294Whitney#890#1,184
  4. 269Trevin#840#1,109
  5. 252Curt#850#1,102

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

See the top 100 for 1989