Rise

Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293 · #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
Given to girls 93.7% of the time

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Peak · girls
1955 · 67 births
Debut · girls
15 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,099
since 1942

Rise over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201960peak #1,229, 1955girlsboysat peak
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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#5,86115
2024#15,2935#8,3129
2023#13,4626#7,28911
2022#8,3009
2021#13,4646#6,69812
2020#15,0885#8,7398
2019#12,1455
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2014#12,1085
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1985#9,3076
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1981#9,1106
1980#7,4188
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1978#8,5626
1977#6,8928
1976#6,6118
1975
1974#5,7769
1973#6,6667
1972
1971#6,6197
1970#6,3627
1969#3,46116
1968#4,7799
1967#3,34015
1966#2,75220
1965#2,93818
1964#2,41226
1963#1,52254
1962#2,03133
1961#1,78841
1960#1,81139
1959#1,47853
1958#1,48152
1957#1,44254
1956#1,31263
1955#1,22967
1954#1,39252
1953#1,24860
1952#1,23659
1951#1,33249
1950#1,45240
1949#1,51237
1948#1,43941
1947#1,82228
1946#2,15319
1945#1,66025
1944#2,51113
1943#3,8017
1942#2,31115
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First appearance
1942

The first year at least five girls were named Rise! It came in at #2,311, and was given to 15 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1972, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Rise is popular in 1960

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedNHWashington: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedWAIdaho: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedNDMinnesota: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedMNIllinois: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedILWisconsin: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedWIMichigan: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedMINew York: #1,175 for girls · 6 births · 1 in 27,950 girlsNYMassachusetts: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedMARhode Island: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedRIOregon: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedORNevada: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedNVWyoming: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedIAIndiana: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedINOhio: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedOHPennsylvania: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedPANew Jersey: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedNJConnecticut: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedCTCalifornia: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedCAUtah: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedUTColorado: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedCONebraska: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedNEMissouri: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedMOKentucky: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedWVVirginia: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedVAMaryland: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedMDDelaware: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedDEArizona: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedAZNew Mexico: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedNMKansas: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedKSArkansas: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedARTennessee: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedTNNorth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedNCSouth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedDCOklahoma: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedOKLouisiana: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedLAMississippi: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedMSAlabama: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedALGeorgia: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedGAHawaii: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedHITexas: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedTXFlorida: fewer than 5 girls named Rise, so not publishedFL

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Top states · girls
  1. New York#1,175 · 1 in 27,950

Best ever in a state: #517 in Missouri, 1958.

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StateRankBirthsShare
New York#1,17561 in 27,950
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.

See more about Rise
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · girls
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1942
  • Peaked 1955 at #1,229 (67 births)
  • Births halved by 1962, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 29,183
  • Highest: 1 in 29,183 girls born in 1955 were named Rise (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 324,038 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 50.0% of all girls named Rise (549) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2014
  • Mostly girls until 2013, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s185#1,439 (1948)#2,151
1950s549#1,229 (1955)#1,360
1960s271#1,522 (1963)#2,683
1970s52#5,776 (1974)#6,784
1980s20#7,418 (1980)#8,612
1990s0
2000s0
2010s0
2020s22#13,462 (2023)#14,327

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.

Rise in 1960

girls
#1,811
39 births · 1 in 51,845 girls

Top girls' names in 1960

  1. #1Mary51,472
  2. #2Susan39,208
  3. #3Linda37,316
  4. #4Karen36,378
  5. #5Donna34,138
  6. #6Lisa33,693
  7. #7Patricia32,113
  8. #8Debra26,732
  9. #9Cynthia26,706
  10. #10Deborah25,266
  11. #1,811Rise39
More about 1960

girls

2,021,941 girls got a published name in 1960; 1 in 51,845 of them was named Rise, which outranked 75.3% of the 7,332 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Rise
  1. #1,789Reda40
  2. #1,789Theda40
  3. #1,789Tracye40
  4. #1,811Rise39
  5. #1,811Billy39
  6. #1,811Carlyn39
  7. #1,811Concepcion39
  8. #1,835Alfredia38
  9. #1,835Arlette38
  10. #1,835Darlean38

Tied with 23 names at #1,811; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1959
Risers
  1. 1,798Lisha#2,395#597
  2. 1,223Elana#2,108#885
  3. 667Leisha#1,537#870
  4. 513Misty#1,214#701
  5. 462Loriann#1,396#934
Fallers
  1. 421Taryn#771#1,192
  2. 335Cheryll#993#1,328
  3. 305Marilynn#724#1,029
  4. 304Drema#997#1,301
  5. 258Merrie#978#1,236

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

See the top 100 for 1960