Corvette — girls' name
80 babies named Corvette in U.S. Social Security records since 1966, with the highest year being 1985. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
61% of everyone ever named Corvette was born in this single decade.
21 babies were named Corvette in 1985 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Corvette
The Social Security Administration has registered 80 babies named Corvette between 1966 and 1998, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Corvette currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 21 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Corvette performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 49 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Corvette shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Corvette in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Corvette 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 80 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.
Corvette at a glance
Last recorded 1998Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Corvette popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1998–1966
- Peak year (1985)
- 21
- Annual births at peak — across 33 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1998.
80 total births across 33 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1985 with 21 births in a single year.
Corvette by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 49 births that decade — 61% of Corvette's all-time total
Corvette decade highlights
- Peak decade 49 births
- Runner-up 25 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Corvette's strongest decade
49 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 61% of all-time use.
Corvette by state
Where Corvette concentrates geographically — total births since 1966
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 6.3% |
5 of 80 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 6.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 6.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1966–1998 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.