Easter — girls' name

What the Data Says About Easter

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,513 babies named Easter between 1880 and 2017, spanning 138 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Easter currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 133 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Easter performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,141 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Easter shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 482 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Easter in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Easter 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 5,513 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.