Favor — #4517 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Favor

The Social Security Administration has registered 487 babies named Favor between 2002 and 2024, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Favor currently holds the #4517 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 31 babies received it in a single year. Favor is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 130 additional births since 2003.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Favor performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 233 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Favor shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 46 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Maryland. In total, SSA state-level files list Favor in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Favor 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 487 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.