Favour — #10702 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Favour

The Social Security Administration has registered 455 babies named Favour between 2001 and 2024, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Favour currently holds the #10702 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 36 babies received it in a single year. Favour is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 37 additional births since 2003.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Favour performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 240 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Favour shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 66 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Maryland. In total, SSA state-level files list Favour in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Favour 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 455 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.