Rebel
#3,167 for girls in 2025, 50 births · #3,379 for boys in 2025, 34 births
Given to girls 60.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 130 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,490since 1912
Rebel 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 | #3,167 | 50 | #3,379 | 34 |
| 2024 | #2,637 | 66 | #3,216 | 37 |
| 2023 | #2,789 | 61 | #3,055 | 40 |
| 2022 | #2,579 | 68 | #3,216 | 37 |
| 2021 | #1,612 | 130 | #2,410 | 56 |
| 2020 | #1,991 | 94 | #2,323 | 58 |
| 2019 | #2,170 | 85 | #2,736 | 46 |
| 2018 | #1,890 | 106 | #2,325 | 57 |
| 2017 | #2,487 | 72 | #2,566 | 49 |
| 2016 | #1,956 | 102 | #2,726 | 44 |
| 2015 | #2,209 | 85 | #2,684 | 45 |
| 2014 | #2,922 | 58 | #2,542 | 48 |
| 2013 | #3,367 | 47 | #2,299 | 55 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #5,256 | 17 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #4,822 | 19 |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | #4,366 | 22 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #4,582 | 21 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #4,714 | 20 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #5,434 | 16 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | — | #6,258 | 11 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | — | #9,243 | 6 | |
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| 1999 | — | #7,139 | 8 | |
| 1998 | — | — | ||
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | — | — | ||
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| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | — | |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | #3,521 | 13 |
| 1986 | — | #4,457 | 9 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | — | |
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1971 | #3,943 | 15 | — | |
| 1970 | #4,492 | 12 | #3,282 | 9 |
| 1969 | #3,199 | 18 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,874 | 20 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | #1,783 | 42 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,198 | 10 | — | |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,752 | 21 | #4,039 | 5 |
| 1963 | #4,019 | 11 | #2,414 | 12 |
| 1962 | #3,161 | 16 | #2,504 | 11 |
| 1961 | #3,793 | 12 | #3,097 | 8 |
| 1960 | — | #3,337 | 7 | |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | — | |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | — | |
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| 1956 | #3,696 | 11 | #3,216 | 7 |
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| 1954 | #3,718 | 10 | #3,827 | 5 |
| 1953 | #3,955 | 9 | — | |
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| 1951 | #3,482 | 10 | — | |
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| 1948 | #4,205 | 7 | — | |
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| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 | — | |
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| 1912 | #2,979 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rebel! It came in at #2,979, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1912–1947, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Rebel is popular in 1912
No state had 5 or more girls named Rebel in 1912, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Rebel
- 530 spots since 2024 (#2,637 → #3,167)
- 1,176 spots since 2020 (#1,991 → #3,167)
- 958 spots since 2015 (#2,209 → #3,167)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2021 at #1,612 (130 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,622 girls born in 2021 were named Rebel (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,145 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.9% of all girls named Rebel (579) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2013, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #2,979 (1912) | #2,979 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 17 | #4,205 (1948) | #4,490 |
| 1950s | 54 | #3,482 (1951) | #4,147 |
| 1960s | 156 | #1,783 (1967) | #3,511 |
| 1970s | 78 | #3,943 (1971) | #6,793 |
| 1980s | 56 | #5,254 (1981) | #7,516 |
| 1990s | 35 | #8,334 (1997) | #11,156 |
| 2000s | 41 | #10,807 (2008) | #15,555 |
| 2010s | 579 | #1,890 (2018) | #5,457 |
| 2020s | 469 | #1,612 (2021) | #2,463 |
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.
Rebel in 1912
Top girls' names in 1912
More about 1912
girls
558,119 girls got a published name in 1912; 1 in 111,624 of them was named Rebel, which outranked 13.5% of the 3,445 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 466 names at #2,979; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.