Child — boys' name

What the Data Says About Child

The Social Security Administration has registered 78 babies named Child between 2010 and 2012, spanning 3 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Child currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 42 babies received it in a single year. Child is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 53 additional births since 2010.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Child performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 78 births during that ten-year window. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Maryland, which accounts for 77 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Child in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Child 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 78 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.