Bambi
Bambi was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,580 among girls’ names; 5,261 Americans have been recorded with it since 1943 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,700 Americans named Bambi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 46 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bambi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bambi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bambi is “a female given name.” Its etymology gives the sense “young girl” (bambina).
Borrowed from Italian Bambi, from bambina (“young girl”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bambi?
#6,580 among girls’ names, 2025
Bambi entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #6,580 in 2025.
327 babies in 1979, the peak
Bambi peaked in 1979, when 327 girls were given it, #562 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,580 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,398 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,698 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,373 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,549 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,599 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,055 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,927 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,631 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,946 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #14,892 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,247 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,059 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,992 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,458 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,112 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,355 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,687 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,413 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,996 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,008 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,640 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,686 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,649 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,563 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,624 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,707 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,327 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,899 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,785 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,910 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,810 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 74 | #1,537 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 103 | #1,230 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 160 | #934 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 203 | #795 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 322 | #577 | 0.19 |
| 1979 | 327 | #562 | 0.20 |
| 1978 | 209 | #744 | 0.14 |
| 1977 | 214 | #721 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 118 | #1,043 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 108 | #1,083 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 102 | #1,135 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 80 | #1,287 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 71 | #1,394 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 68 | #1,491 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 59 | #1,601 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 73 | #1,325 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 60 | #1,459 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 65 | #1,360 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 98 | #1,057 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 94 | #1,079 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 127 | #933 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 162 | #815 | 0.08 |
| 1962 | 185 | #765 | 0.09 |
| 1961 | 179 | #783 | 0.09 |
| 1960 | 251 | #637 | 0.12 |
| 1959 | 241 | #641 | 0.12 |
| 1958 | 214 | #676 | 0.11 |
| 1957 | 227 | #652 | 0.11 |
| 1956 | 217 | #647 | 0.11 |
| 1955 | 155 | #767 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 105 | #939 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 77 | #1,103 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,330 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,040 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,242 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,637 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,697 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,642 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,043 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,152 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,714 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,515 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bambi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bambi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bambi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bambi, and how old are they?
4,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 5,261 Americans ever recorded as Bambi. The median Bambi alive today is 54 years old; half are between 46 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 4,318 people named Bambi (4,291 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,805 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 13 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,830 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,940 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 772 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 50 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 97 |
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 Bambi born?
The states with the most babies named Bambi are California, New York and Ohio, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 484 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 291 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 285 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 253 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 231 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 167 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 141 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 138 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 135 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Indiana | 120 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Bambi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bambi is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1943 it was given 1.2 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 Bambi 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 5,488 babies since 1880, Bambi is the most given (96% of them).
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 Bambi
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 Bambi and names like it
- Compare Bambi and BambieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sBambi peaked in 1979.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bambi since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Bambi.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Bambi alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.