Acacia
Acacia was given to 71 girls in 2025, #2,485 among girls’ names; 4,310 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,240 Americans named Acacia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 14 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Acacia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Acacia?
#2,485 among girls’ names, 2025
Acacia fell from #1,950 in 2015 to #2,485 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 57.7 to 44.2 per million.
143 babies in 2002, the peak
Acacia peaked in 2002, when 143 girls were given it, #1,350 among girls’ names. The 71 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | #2,485 | 44.2 |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,722 | 38.9 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,823 | 37.4 |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,555 | 42.1 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,638 | 39.6 |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,216 | 50.1 |
| 2019 | 76 | #2,355 | 45.3 |
| 2018 | 87 | #2,159 | 51.1 |
| 2017 | 93 | #2,087 | 53.9 |
| 2016 | 88 | #2,188 | 49.7 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 103 | #1,950 | 57.7 |
| 2014 | 92 | #2,097 | 51.5 |
| 2013 | 80 | #2,306 | 45.6 |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,373 | 44.3 |
| 2011 | 100 | #1,968 | 56.8 |
| 2010 | 88 | #2,202 | 49.5 |
| 2009 | 107 | #1,948 | 58.2 |
| 2008 | 127 | #1,740 | 67.2 |
| 2007 | 101 | #2,015 | 52.5 |
| 2006 | 118 | #1,761 | 62.1 |
| 2005 | 90 | #2,073 | 48.7 |
| 2004 | 122 | #1,600 | 66.4 |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,560 | 67.3 |
| 2002 | 143 | #1,350 | 79.6 |
| 2001 | 124 | #1,505 | 68.9 |
| 2000 | 138 | #1,354 | 76.0 |
| 1999 | 132 | #1,339 | 74.4 |
| 1998 | 135 | #1,310 | 76.4 |
| 1997 | 128 | #1,341 | 73.5 |
| 1996 | 121 | #1,382 | 69.0 |
| 1995 | 106 | #1,489 | 60.3 |
| 1994 | 124 | #1,343 | 69.4 |
| 1993 | 114 | #1,417 | 63.0 |
| 1992 | 114 | #1,419 | 61.8 |
| 1991 | 91 | #1,636 | 48.5 |
| 1990 | 85 | #1,712 | 44.8 |
| 1989 | 83 | #1,647 | 45.0 |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,887 | 36.5 |
| 1987 | 68 | #1,747 | 39.1 |
| 1986 | 62 | #1,815 | 36.1 |
| 1985 | 51 | #2,081 | 29.6 |
| 1984 | 57 | #1,866 | 33.9 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,150 | 15.6 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,704 | 20.1 |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,614 | 21.0 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,800 | 19.3 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,672 | 20.6 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,637 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,941 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,864 | 17.7 |
| 1975 | 16 | #3,949 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,226 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 15 | #3,970 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,556 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,788 | 9.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Acacia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Acacia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Acacia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Acacia, and how old are they?
4,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,310 Americans ever recorded as Acacia. The median Acacia alive today is 24 years old; half are between 14 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 3,502 people named Acacia (3,483 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,871 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 182 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,210 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,020 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Acacia born?
The states with the most babies named Acacia are California, Texas and Colorado, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Colorado is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,767 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,290 | 0.5× |
| Colorado | 5 | #908 | 1.2× |
Where Acacia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Acacia is most over-represented in California: since 1971 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Acacia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,513 babies since 1880, Acacia is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 71 of their 76 babies (93%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Acacia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Acacia and names like it
- Compare Acacia and AkaciaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAcacia peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Acacia since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Acacia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Acacia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.