English — unisex name

What the Data Says About English

The Social Security Administration has registered 265 babies named English between 1961 and 2014, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, English currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 22 babies received it in a single year. English is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 186 additional births since 1889.

Decade-level aggregation shows that English performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 116 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, English shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list English in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for English 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 265 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.