Female — girls' name

What the Data Says About Female

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,292 babies named Female between 1981 and 2015, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Female currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 157 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Female performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 811 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Female shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 760 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Mexico and Kansas. In total, SSA state-level files list Female in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Female 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 1,292 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.