Happy — #10957 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Happy

The Social Security Administration has registered 303 babies named Happy between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Happy currently holds the #10957 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1936, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Happy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 259 additional births since 1919.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Happy performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 58 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Happy shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 13 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Happy in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Happy 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 303 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.