Girls' name · since 1972
Fantasy
107 babies named Fantasy in U.S. Social Security records since 1972, with the highest year being 1998. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #26,370 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 107
- born since 1972
- 2000s
- peak decade
Fantasy sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 107 recorded since 1972.
Fantasy has 107 recorded births among girls since 1972, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1972 to 2008.
- #26,370 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 107 born since 1972
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Fantasy ranks #26,370 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 107 born since 1972, peaking in the 2000s.
- #26,370 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 107
- born since 1972
- 2000s
- peak decade
Fantasy's 107 recorded births place it above 63.44% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Fantasy's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Fantasy's full recorded timeline at 2000, 56% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 44% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1972, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1998 peak of 12 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Fantasy popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1972–2008
- Peak year (1998)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 37 years of records
Fantasy by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (60 births, 56% of the file).
2000s was Fantasy's strongest decade.
60 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 56% of all-time use.
Fantasy births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 15
1970s
15 births
- 1990s
1990s
32 births
- 2000s
2000s
60 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 60 births (56% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Fantasy: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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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, 1972–2008 (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 Fantasy 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.