Girls' name · since 1981
Falin
48 babies named Falin in U.S. Social Security records since 1981, with the highest year being 1983. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #35,416 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 48
- born since 1981
- 1980s
- peak decade
Falin is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 48 have been recorded since 1981.
Falin has 48 recorded births among girls since 1981, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1981 to 1989.
- #35,416 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 48 born since 1981
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Falin ranks #35,416 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 48 born since 1981, peaking in the 1980s.
- #35,416 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 48
- born since 1981
- 1980s
- peak decade
Falin's 48 recorded births place it above 50.79% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Falin's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Falin splits its recorded history at 1984: 35% of all births land in the more recent half, 65% in the earlier half, leaning more toward its earlier era than today's. The single quietest year was 1981 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1983 peak of 16 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Falin popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1981–1989
- Peak year (1983)
- 16
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Falin by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (48 births, 100% of the file).
1980s was Falin's strongest decade.
48 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Falin births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s
1980s
48 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 48 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Falin: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1983)
Similar record span (~8 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1981–1989 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Falin draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.