December — #5167 US girls' name

What the Data Says About December

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,586 babies named December between 1960 and 2024, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, December currently holds the #5167 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 46 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that December performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 357 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, December shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 32 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list December in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for December 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 1,586 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.