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 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 23,282 of them was named Simcha, which outranked 85.7% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,028Mazieon75
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- #2,028Tyce75
- #2,042Simcha74
- #2,042Adriano74
- #2,042Amor74
- #2,042Binyomin74
- #2,057Aariz73
- #2,057Arley73
- #2,057Dashiell73
Tied with 14 names at #2,042; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.