Spring

#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births

Peak · girls
1976 · 251 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,528
since 1951

Spring over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Spring has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201951peak #622, 1976girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#6,54617
2024#5,96220
2023#6,16919
2022#6,46418
2021#3,61442
2020#5,31423
2019#6,69817
2018#4,76828
2017#7,09216
2016#7,23016
2015#5,83322
2014#6,98717
2013#7,37216
2012#9,10912
2011#7,43616
2010#9,79011
2009#6,54420
2008#8,52914
2007#6,09322
2006#6,84018
2005#5,43723
2004#5,20824
2003#4,41829
2002#4,76725
2001#4,68825
2000#3,80833
1999#4,44525
1998#3,49734
1997#3,54732
1996#3,83128
1995#3,58530
1994#3,89227
1993#4,52422
1992#4,68621
1991#3,54030
1990#2,60045
1989#3,04535
1988#2,53942
1987#3,62424
1986#2,42041
1985#2,22246
1984#1,65766
1983#1,56571
1982#1,55176
1981#1,172113
1980#1,089128
1979#875176
1978#849174
1977#824182
1976#622251
1975#831162
1974#1,26885
1973#1,22686
1972#1,18191
1971#1,32281
1970#1,154100
1969#1,57257
1968#2,29628
1967#4,05311
1966#2,51923
1965#2,46424
1964#3,00018
1963#2,54323
1962#2,35726
1961#2,75220
1960#2,15029
1959#1,91834
1958#1,60644
1957#1,20277
1956#1,002104
1955#1,59741
1954#1,64838
1953#1,97327
1952#1,82030
1951#4,3857
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First appearance
1951

The first year at least five girls were named Spring! It came in at #4,385, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1951, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.

See more about Spring
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 584 spots since 2024 (#5,962#6,546)
  • 1,232 spots since 2020 (#5,314#6,546)
  • 713 spots since 2015 (#5,833#6,546)
  • Biggest jump: 437 spots in 1975 (#1,268#831)
  • Biggest drop: 214 spots in 1980 (#875#1,089)
Rise & fade · girls
25 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1951
  • Peaked 1976 at #622 (251 births)
  • Births halved by 1981, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 5 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1975–1979
Share of babies · girls
1 in 5,837
  • Highest: 1 in 5,837 girls born in 1976 were named Spring (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 39.3% of all girls named Spring (1,388) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s402#1,002 (1956)#1,906
1960s259#1,572 (1969)#2,571
1970s1,388#622 (1976)#1,015
1980s642#1,089 (1980)#2,088
1990s294#2,600 (1990)#3,815
2000s233#3,808 (2000)#5,633
2010s171#4,768 (2018)#7,232
2020s139#3,614 (2021)#5,678

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.

Spring in 1951

girls
#4,385
7 births · 1 in 257,266 girls

Top girls' names in 1951

  1. #1Linda73,982
  2. #2Mary65,721
  3. #3Patricia56,446
  4. #4Deborah42,053
  5. #5Barbara40,617
  6. #6Susan40,228
  7. #7Nancy30,346
  8. #8Karen27,998
  9. #9Sandra27,665
  10. #10Kathleen26,716
  11. #4,385Spring7
More about 1951

girls

1,800,859 girls got a published name in 1951; 1 in 257,266 of them was named Spring, which outranked 29.4% of the 6,213 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Spring
  1. #4,011Young8
  2. #4,011Zadie8
  3. #4,011Zeda8
  4. #4,385Spring7
  5. #4,385Adelene7
  6. #4,385Adonna7
  7. #4,385Adra7
  8. #4,833Adah6
  9. #4,833Adelfa6
  10. #4,833Agapita6

Tied with 447 names at #4,385; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1950
Risers
  1. 345Rhona#1,333#988
  2. 307Bobbi#1,153#846
  3. 296Ricki#1,090#794
  4. 295Mindy#771#476
  5. 288Sharleen#1,053#765
Fallers
  1. 395Sharman#668#1,063
  2. 343Manuela#773#1,116
  3. 294Allie#945#1,239
  4. 253Merrie#937#1,190
  5. 252Olive#891#1,143

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

See the top 100 for 1951