Given — boys' name

What the Data Says About Given

The Social Security Administration has registered 91 babies named Given between 1925 and 2022, spanning 98 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Given currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Given is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 23 additional births since 2018.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Given performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 39 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Given shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Given in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Given 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 91 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.