Symphony

#1,525 for girls in 2025, 139 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 98.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
2020 · 169 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,256
since 1979

Symphony over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Symphony has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202001girlsat 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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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,525139#10,6956
2024#1,472148
2023#1,407159#7,28911
2022#1,355172#6,82812
2021#1,426151#10,7996
2020#1,303169
2019#1,495146
2018#1,577137
2017#1,643131
2016#1,605137
2015#1,540144
2014#1,583136
2013#1,570137
2012#1,733119
2011#1,646130
2010#2,22087
2009#2,11995
2008#2,44178
2007#2,50974
2006#2,77863
2005#2,96954
2004#2,80857
2003#3,41242
2002#3,73035
2001#2,36067
2000#3,21642
1999#3,09942
1998#3,11640
1997#3,36534
1996#2,55849
1995#3,02238
1994#3,79028
1993#3,22135
1992#4,23624
1991#3,93626
1990#3,43631
1989#4,35821
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First appearance
1979

The first year at least five girls were named Symphony! It came in at #10,210, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1979–1980, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Symphony
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 53 spots since 2024 (#1,472#1,525)
  • 222 spots since 2020 (#1,303#1,525)
  • 15 spots since 2015 (#1,540#1,525)
Rise & fade · girls
41 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1979
  • Peaked 2020 at #1,303 (169 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
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 9,536
  • Highest: 1 in 9,536 girls born in 2022 were named Symphony (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 11,563 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #1,303 in 2020, was only 1 in 9,565 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 40.0% of all girls named Symphony (1,304) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s5#10,210 (1979)#10,210
1980s55#4,358 (1989)#7,091
1990s347#2,558 (1996)#3,378
2000s607#2,119 (2009)#2,834
2010s1,304#1,495 (2019)#1,661
2020s938#1,303 (2020)#1,415

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.

Symphony in 2001

girls
#2,360
67 births · 1 in 26,875 girls

Top girls' names in 2001

  1. #1Emily25,059
  2. #2Madison22,166
  3. #3Hannah20,723
  4. #4Ashley16,531
  5. #5Alexis16,404
  6. #6Sarah15,929
  7. #7Samantha15,867
  8. #8Abigail14,807
  9. #9Elizabeth14,792
  10. #10Olivia13,977
  11. #2,360Symphony67
More about 2001

girls

1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 26,875 of them was named Symphony, which outranked 86.9% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Symphony
  1. #2,331Tamiya68
  2. #2,331Traci68
  3. #2,331Zharia68
  4. #2,360Symphony67
  5. #2,360Aiden67
  6. #2,360Alona67
  7. #2,360Arriana67
  8. #2,379Alayah66
  9. #2,379Alyna66
  10. #2,379Annamaria66

Tied with 18 names at #2,360; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2000
Risers
  1. 1,602Dafne#2,569#967
  2. 1,493Nevaeh#1,759#266
  3. 1,339Jimena#2,213#874
  4. 1,263Taina#2,174#911
  5. 1,069Yuliana#1,759#690
Fallers
  1. 913Dariana#837#1,750
  2. 368Cortney#825#1,193
  3. 362Maiya#994#1,356
  4. 313Rosalinda#701#1,014
  5. 307Ivana#863#1,170

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

See the top 100 for 2001