Unisex name · since 1975
Bahati
80 babies named Bahati in U.S. Social Security records since 1975, with the highest year being 2024. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #29,564 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,184 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 80
- born since 1975
- 2020s
- peak decade
80 babies have been named Bahati since 1975, making it today's #11184 unisex name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Bahati has been recorded 80 times among girls since 1975, currently ranked #11184 nationally and more common than 35% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1975 to 2025.
- #29,564 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #11,184 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 80 born since 1975
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Bahati ranks #29,564 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #11,184 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 80 born since 1975, peaking in the 2020s.
- #29,564 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,184 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 80
- born since 1975
- 2020s
- peak decade
Bahati's 80 recorded births place it above 58.94% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Bahati compares
80 21st percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Bahati's all-time total is 79% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Bahati | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 80 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 12 | 21 | 19,840 |
Bahati's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Bahati's full recorded timeline at 2020, 57% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 43% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1975, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2024 peak of 12 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Bahati popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1975–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 51 years of records
Bahati popularity over time - boys
10 total births recorded since 2024 (Bahati as boys' name)
Bahati by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (46 births, 57% of the file).
2020s was Bahati's strongest decade.
46 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 57% of all-time use.
Bahati births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 5
1970s
5 births
- 1980s 6
1980s
6 births
- 2010s
2010s
23 births
- 2020s
2020s
46 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 46 births (57% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Bahati: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2024)
Similar record span (~50 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1975–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Bahati draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.