Unique
#2,438 for girls in 2025, 73 births · #2,765 for boys in 2025, 46 births
Given to girls 88.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 264 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,615since 1972
Unique 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 | #2,438 | 73 | #2,765 | 46 |
| 2024 | #2,150 | 88 | #2,595 | 51 |
| 2023 | #1,903 | 104 | #3,474 | 33 |
| 2022 | #1,953 | 101 | #4,303 | 24 |
| 2021 | #1,652 | 126 | #6,032 | 14 |
| 2020 | #1,687 | 121 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #1,789 | 114 | #6,104 | 14 |
| 2018 | #1,799 | 113 | #7,617 | 10 |
| 2017 | #1,686 | 127 | #7,095 | 11 |
| 2016 | #1,743 | 119 | #7,605 | 10 |
| 2015 | #1,554 | 141 | #7,066 | 11 |
| 2014 | #1,479 | 151 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | #1,502 | 147 | #5,171 | 17 |
| 2012 | #1,153 | 213 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | #1,117 | 221 | #5,675 | 15 |
| 2010 | #1,082 | 230 | #5,251 | 17 |
| 2009 | #921 | 292 | #5,102 | 18 |
| 2008 | #1,108 | 233 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2007 | #1,137 | 226 | #4,127 | 24 |
| 2006 | #1,066 | 239 | #3,451 | 30 |
| 2005 | #928 | 268 | #4,198 | 21 |
| 2004 | #1,008 | 234 | #3,074 | 32 |
| 2003 | #1,035 | 221 | #2,993 | 32 |
| 2002 | #919 | 243 | #2,556 | 38 |
| 2001 | #841 | 272 | #2,562 | 37 |
| 2000 | #888 | 248 | #2,525 | 37 |
| 1999 | #831 | 259 | #2,510 | 35 |
| 1998 | #865 | 245 | #2,599 | 32 |
| 1997 | #817 | 253 | #2,347 | 35 |
| 1996 | #786 | 264 | #2,483 | 31 |
| 1995 | #883 | 215 | #3,020 | 23 |
| 1994 | #1,055 | 172 | #2,951 | 24 |
| 1993 | #999 | 185 | #3,501 | 18 |
| 1992 | #1,037 | 179 | #2,412 | 30 |
| 1991 | #1,201 | 144 | #3,636 | 16 |
| 1990 | #1,318 | 123 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #1,187 | 137 | #2,416 | 27 |
| 1988 | #1,376 | 103 | #3,523 | 14 |
| 1987 | #1,418 | 93 | #3,731 | 12 |
| 1986 | #1,526 | 80 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #1,588 | 75 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,788 | 60 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #1,858 | 56 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #2,492 | 38 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #2,009 | 52 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,043 | 51 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #1,795 | 60 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,801 | 29 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #2,381 | 37 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,154 | 15 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 | — | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
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| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Unique! It came in at #7,292, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1974, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Unique
- 288 spots since 2024 (#2,150 → #2,438)
- 751 spots since 2020 (#1,687 → #2,438)
- 884 spots since 2015 (#1,554 → #2,438)
- Biggest jump: 187 spots in 2009 (#1,108 → #921)
- Biggest drop: 161 spots in 2010 (#921 → #1,082)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 1996 at #786 (264 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 20 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 1995–2002
- Highest: 1 in 6,291 girls born in 2009 were named Unique (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,017 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #786 in 1996, was only 1 in 6,640 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.5% of all girls named Unique (2,476) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 166 | #1,795 (1979) | #4,510 |
| 1980s | 745 | #1,187 (1989) | #1,729 |
| 1990s | 2,039 | #786 (1996) | #979 |
| 2000s | 2,476 | #841 (2001) | #985 |
| 2010s | 1,576 | #1,082 (2010) | #1,490 |
| 2020s | 613 | #1,652 (2021) | #1,964 |
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.
Unique in 2013
Top girls' names in 2013
Top boys' names in 2013
More about 2013
girls
1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 11,937 of them was named Unique, which outranked 92.2% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,496Janie148
- #1,496Tallulah148
- #1,496Tina148
- #1,502Unique147
- #1,502Chelsey147
- #1,502Eunice147
- #1,502Kamiya147
- #1,509Abigayle146
- #1,509Alba146
- #1,509Alex146
Tied with 6 names at #1,502; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 111,269 of them was named Unique, which outranked 63.2% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,981Zayon18
- #4,981Zebulun18
- #4,981Zeek18
- #5,171Unique17
- #5,171Adama17
- #5,171Adrion17
- #5,171Aleem17
- #5,404Aadam16
- #5,404Aarin16
- #5,404Abigail16
Tied with 232 names at #5,171; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.