Girls' name · since 2003
Belize
Belize has 85 recorded births since 2003 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2018 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #28,916 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,596 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 85
- born since 2003
- 2020s
- peak decade
85 babies have been named Belize since 2003, making it today's #12596 girls' name.
Social Security Administration records show Belize recorded 85 times among girls since 2003, holding rank #12596 nationally today, ahead of 27% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2003 to 2025.
- #28,916 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #12,596 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 85 born since 2003
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Belize ranks #28,916 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #12,596 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 85 born since 2003, peaking in the 2020s.
- #28,916 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,596 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 85
- born since 2003
- 2020s
- peak decade
Belize's 85 recorded births place it above 59.84% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Belize compares
85 22nd 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
Belize's all-time total is 77% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Belize | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 85 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 9 | 21 | 19,840 |
Belize's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Belize splits its recorded history at 2018: 58% of all births land in the more recent half, 42% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2011 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2018 peak of 9 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Belize popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2003–2025
- Peak year (2018)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 23 years of records
Belize by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (40 births, 47% of the file).
2020s was Belize's strongest decade.
40 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 47% of all-time use.
Belize births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 6
2000s
6 births
- 2010s
2010s
39 births
- 2020s
2020s
40 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 40 births (47% of all-time use).
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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, 2003–2025 (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 Belize 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.