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 | — | |
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| 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.
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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 16,048 of them was named Rebel, which outranked 89.6% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,878Taliah107
- #1,878Xochitl107
- #1,878Yarely107
- #1,890Rebel106
- #1,890Aveline106
- #1,890Caydence106
- #1,890Coralie106
- #1,900Aditi105
- #1,900Audree105
- #1,900Eliora105
Tied with 9 names at #1,890; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 31,862 of them was named Rebel, which outranked 83.5% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,300Syre58
- #2,300Tyrion58
- #2,300Wynn58
- #2,325Rebel57
- #2,325Aiyden57
- #2,325Antwon57
- #2,325Charbel57
- #2,355Antoni56
- #2,355Caelan56
- #2,355Daemon56
Tied with 29 names at #2,325; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.