Infant — boys' name

What the Data Says About Infant

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,206 babies named Infant between 1983 and 2023, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Infant currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 596 babies received it in a single year. Infant is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,890 additional births since 1984.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Infant performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 2,708 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Infant shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 3,397 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Indiana and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Infant in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Infant 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 4,206 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.