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
- Peak · boys
- 1990 · 596 births
- Debut · boys
- 11 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,230since 1983
Infant 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 2023 | #5,390 | 23 | #4,886 | 20 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 | #4,936 | 19 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 | #6,620 | 12 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #8,140 | 9 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | #5,789 | 15 |
| 2015 | — | #8,744 | 8 | |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | — | #10,728 | 6 | |
| 2012 | — | — | ||
| 2011 | — | #12,287 | 5 | |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | — | |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | — | #7,427 | 10 | |
| 2005 | #2,278 | 79 | #1,506 | 95 |
| 2004 | #2,135 | 84 | #1,159 | 135 |
| 2003 | #2,084 | 85 | #1,391 | 96 |
| 2002 | #1,683 | 109 | #1,139 | 125 |
| 2001 | #1,654 | 110 | #1,221 | 109 |
| 2000 | #1,006 | 210 | #765 | 217 |
| 1999 | #658 | 350 | #555 | 361 |
| 1998 | #1,141 | 166 | #946 | 149 |
| 1997 | #1,110 | 169 | #735 | 208 |
| 1996 | #979 | 194 | #750 | 200 |
| 1995 | #867 | 222 | #675 | 244 |
| 1994 | #1,027 | 180 | #752 | 195 |
| 1993 | #968 | 195 | #733 | 202 |
| 1992 | #744 | 284 | #565 | 324 |
| 1991 | #1,000 | 186 | #670 | 229 |
| 1990 | #432 | 582 | #389 | 596 |
| 1989 | #567 | 392 | #491 | 376 |
| 1988 | #1,671 | 77 | #1,130 | 78 |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 | #1,864 | 34 |
| 1986 | #4,186 | 19 | #2,510 | 21 |
| 1985 | #4,126 | 19 | #2,710 | 18 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | #2,956 | 15 |
| 1983 | — | #3,630 | 11 | |
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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
- 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)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 1990 at #389 (596 births)
- Births halved by 1991, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1989–2000
- 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%)
- 64.0% of all boys named Infant (2,708) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2023, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 553 | #491 (1989) | #2,184 |
| 1990s | 2,708 | #389 (1990) | #677 |
| 2000s | 809 | #765 (2000) | #4,429 |
| 2010s | 78 | #5,555 (2019) | #8,370 |
| 2020s | 82 | #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 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 10,644 of them was named Infant, which outranked 93.1% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 12,828 of them was named Infant, which outranked 91.6% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.