Turquoise

Last seen for girls in 2011 at #16,764

Peak · girls
1987 · 63 births
Debut · girls
12 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
539
since 1977

Turquoise over time

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201977peak #1,838, 1987girls
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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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1997#6,48314
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1990#2,95738
1989#2,71441
1988#2,41945
1987#1,83863
1986#2,90332
1985#3,85221
1984#2,99229
1983#2,55235
1982#4,71615
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1978#5,95810
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First appearance
1977

The first year at least five girls were named Turquoise! It came in at #5,213, and was given to 12 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1998–2025, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Turquoise is popular in 1977

No state had 5 or more girls named Turquoise in 1977, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Turquoise
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2011
Rise & fade · girls
10 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1977
  • Peaked 1987 at #1,838 (63 births)
  • Births halved by 1991, 4 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 27,597
  • Highest: 1 in 27,597 girls born in 1987 were named Turquoise (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 351,813 girls born in 2011 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 58.8% of all girls named Turquoise (317) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s62#2,343 (1979)#4,505
1980s317#1,838 (1987)#3,237
1990s155#2,957 (1990)#5,733
2000s0
2010s5#16,764 (2011)#16,764

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.

Turquoise in 1977

girls
#5,213
12 births · 1 in 127,762 girls

Top girls' names in 1977

  1. #1Jennifer58,964
  2. #2Melissa26,879
  3. #3Amy26,729
  4. #4Jessica24,846
  5. #5Heather23,773
  6. #6Angela20,998
  7. #7Michelle19,540
  8. #8Kimberly18,286
  9. #9Amanda18,278
  10. #10Kelly18,234
  11. #5,213Turquoise12
More about 1977

girls

1,533,146 girls got a published name in 1977; 1 in 127,762 of them was named Turquoise, which outranked 54.0% of the 11,329 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Turquoise
  1. #4,942Yasha13
  2. #4,942Yumiko13
  3. #4,942Zinnia13
  4. #5,213Turquoise12
  5. #5,213Abril12
  6. #5,213Ainsley12
  7. #5,213Albertina12
  8. #5,532Abena11
  9. #5,532Adella11
  10. #5,532Ahisha11

Tied with 318 names at #5,213; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1976
Risers
  1. 1,746Shawnte#2,486#740
  2. 1,077Jacklyn#2,060#983
  3. 775Talia#1,482#707
  4. 605Haley#1,047#442
  5. 576Raven#1,154#578
Fallers
  1. 1,033Liberty#543#1,576
  2. 464Luciana#545#1,009
  3. 441Danyel#999#1,440
  4. 428Chaka#897#1,325
  5. 322Catina#861#1,183

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

See the top 100 for 1977