Worthy
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births · #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
Given to boys 86.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1880 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 404since 1880
Worthy 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 | #6,546 | 17 | #7,194 | 11 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | — | |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | — | |
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | — | #10,760 | 6 | |
| 2017 | — | — | ||
| 2016 | — | — | ||
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | — | |
| 2014 | — | — | ||
| 2013 | — | — | ||
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| 2010 | — | — | ||
| 2009 | — | #12,491 | 5 | |
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| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
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| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
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| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
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| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
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| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,452 | 6 | |
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | #2,680 | 9 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | #3,316 | 6 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,671 | 9 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,143 | 12 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,996 | 6 | |
| 1944 | — | #3,109 | 6 | |
| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | #2,449 | 9 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,868 | 7 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,529 | 9 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,393 | 10 | |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | #2,849 | 8 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,864 | 8 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,289 | 7 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,317 | 12 | |
| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,151 | 8 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,566 | 11 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,313 | 13 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,132 | 15 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,446 | 12 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,014 | 9 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,632 | 11 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,231 | 14 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,385 | 12 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,398 | 12 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,562 | 10 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,543 | 10 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,184 | 12 | |
| 1914 | — | — | ||
| 1913 | — | #2,821 | 5 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,269 | 6 | |
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| 1908 | — | #1,373 | 5 | |
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| 1903 | — | #1,130 | 5 | |
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| 1880 | — | #909 | 5 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Worthy was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1880–1911, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Worthy is popular in 1938
No state had 5 or more boys named Worthy in 1938, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Worthy
- 1,118 spots since 2024 (#8,312 → #7,194)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #909 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1881, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1880
- Highest: 1 in 22,098 boys born in 1880 were named Worthy (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 27.2% of all boys named Worthy (110) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #909 (1880) | #909 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 10 | #1,130 (1903) | #1,252 |
| 1910s | 67 | #2,184 (1915) | #2,452 |
| 1920s | 110 | #2,132 (1924) | #2,695 |
| 1930s | 69 | #2,393 (1934) | #2,885 |
| 1940s | 49 | #2,143 (1946) | #3,048 |
| 1950s | 26 | #2,680 (1952) | #3,294 |
| 1960s | 10 | #3,930 (1965) | #4,167 |
| 1970s | 11 | #4,441 (1972) | #5,014 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 5 | #8,236 (1991) | #8,236 |
| 2000s | 5 | #12,491 (2009) | #12,491 |
| 2010s | 12 | #10,760 (2018) | #10,782 |
| 2020s | 25 | #7,194 (2025) | #9,279 |
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.
Worthy in 1938
Top boys' names in 1938
More about 1938
boys
1,109,147 boys got a published name in 1938; 1 in 158,450 of them was named Worthy, which outranked 28.9% of the 4,035 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,646Zackie8
- #2,646Zebedee8
- #2,646Zigmund8
- #2,868Worthy7
- #2,868Abran7
- #2,868Acey7
- #2,868Aldean7
- #3,175Abelino6
- #3,175Adolphe6
- #3,175Adolpho6
Tied with 306 names at #2,868; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.