Gurpreet — boys' name
311 babies named Gurpreet in U.S. Social Security records since 1980, with the highest year being 1995. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
48% of everyone ever named Gurpreet was born in this single decade.
18 babies were named Gurpreet in 1995 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Gurpreet
The Social Security Administration has registered 311 babies named Gurpreet between 1980 and 2008, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Gurpreet currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Gurpreet is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 172 additional births since 1984.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Gurpreet performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 148 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Gurpreet shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 122 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Gurpreet in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Gurpreet 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 311 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.
Gurpreet at a glance
Last recorded 2008Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Gurpreet popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2008–1980
- Peak year (1995)
- 18
- Annual births at peak — across 29 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2008.
311 total births across 29 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1995 with 18 births in a single year.
Gurpreet popularity over time — girls
172 total births recorded since 1984 (Gurpreet as girls' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The girls' variant of Gurpreet accounts for 36% of total recorded use across both genders.
Gurpreet by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 148 births that decade — 48% of Gurpreet's all-time total
Gurpreet decade highlights
- Peak decade 148 births
- Runner-up 89 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Gurpreet's strongest decade
148 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 48% of all-time use.
Gurpreet by state
Where Gurpreet concentrates geographically — total births since 1980
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 122 | 39.2% |
| #2 | New York | | 24 | 7.7% |
122 of 311 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 39.2% of nationwide
- New York 7.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 39.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1980–2008 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.