Simcha
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #1,728 for boys in 2025, 94 births
Given to boys 89.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 94 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,009since 1956
Simcha 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 | #14,942 | 5 | #1,728 | 94 |
| 2024 | — | #2,042 | 74 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #2,244 | 63 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #2,094 | 71 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | #2,000 | 74 |
| 2020 | — | #2,046 | 69 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,790 | 86 | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #1,901 | 78 |
| 2017 | — | #2,450 | 52 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,278 | 58 | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #2,068 | 68 |
| 2014 | — | #2,402 | 53 | |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | #2,402 | 52 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #2,185 | 60 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #2,317 | 55 |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 | #2,730 | 44 |
| 2009 | — | #2,486 | 51 | |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #2,828 | 42 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #2,920 | 40 |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 | #2,513 | 48 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #2,493 | 45 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #2,643 | 40 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #2,545 | 40 |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 | #3,450 | 25 |
| 2001 | #8,758 | 11 | #2,681 | 35 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #3,640 | 22 |
| 1999 | — | #2,865 | 29 | |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #3,849 | 18 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #2,260 | 37 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #3,293 | 21 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #2,299 | 34 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #2,082 | 39 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #1,969 | 41 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #2,303 | 32 |
| 1991 | — | #4,005 | 14 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,166 | 19 | |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #2,989 | 20 |
| 1988 | — | #2,305 | 26 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,339 | 14 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,268 | 14 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,805 | 11 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,270 | 13 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,230 | 13 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,482 | 12 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,412 | 12 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,615 | 11 | |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | #2,897 | 15 |
| 1978 | — | #2,669 | 16 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,836 | 9 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,095 | 12 | |
| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
| 1974 | — | #4,190 | 7 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,370 | 9 | |
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| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
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| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
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| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
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| 1960 | — | #4,038 | 5 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,257 | 7 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,798 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Simcha! It came in at #2,798, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1958–1961, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Simcha
- 314 spots since 2024 (#2,042 → #1,728)
- 318 spots since 2020 (#2,046 → #1,728)
- 340 spots since 2015 (#2,068 → #1,728)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 2025 at #1,728 (94 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,171 boys born in 2025 were named Simcha (0.01%)
- 30.2% of all boys named Simcha (606) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 21 | #2,798 (1956) | #3,348 |
| 1960s | 33 | #3,537 (1965) | #3,854 |
| 1970s | 86 | #2,669 (1978) | #3,780 |
| 1980s | 146 | #2,305 (1988) | #3,272 |
| 1990s | 284 | #1,969 (1993) | #2,809 |
| 2000s | 388 | #2,486 (2009) | #2,820 |
| 2010s | 606 | #1,790 (2019) | #2,252 |
| 2020s | 445 | #1,728 (2025) | #2,026 |
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.
Simcha 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 283,512 of them was named Simcha, which outranked 24.0% 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).
- #12,464Zyannah7
- #12,464Zyliah7
- #12,464Zyna7
- #13,793Simcha6
- #13,793Aabriella6
- #13,793Aadhyareddy6
- #13,793Aadhyasri6
- #15,682Aabidah5
- #15,682Aaheli5
- #15,682Aalasia5
Tied with 1,888 names at #13,793; 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 23,284 of them was named Simcha, which outranked 86.5% 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).
- #1,886Townes79
- #1,886Truth79
- #1,886Ziggy79
- #1,901Simcha78
- #1,901Aj78
- #1,901Avett78
- #1,901Dandre78
- #1,920Anay77
- #1,920Aren77
- #1,920Blayne77
Tied with 18 names at #1,901; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.