Baby — #11012 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Baby

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,325 babies named Baby between 1919 and 2024, spanning 106 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Baby currently holds the #11012 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 373 babies received it in a single year. Baby is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 6,078 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Baby performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 2,952 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Baby shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 1,341 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Virginia. In total, SSA state-level files list Baby in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Baby in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,325 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.