Girls' name · since 2023
Kindness
Kindness has 12 recorded births since 2023 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2023 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #51,949 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,724 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 12
- born since 2023
- 2020s
- peak decade
12 babies have been named Kindness since 2023, making it today's #14724 girls' name.
Kindness has 12 recorded births among girls since 2023, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #14724 as of the latest data, more common than 15% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2023 to 2025.
- #51,949 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,724 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 12 born since 2023
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Kindness ranks #51,949 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,724 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 12 born since 2023, peaking in the 2020s.
- #51,949 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,724 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 12
- born since 2023
- 2020s
- peak decade
Kindness's 12 recorded births place it above 27.4% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Kindness compares
12 4th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Kindness's all-time total is 97% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Kindness | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 12 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 6 | 21 | 19,840 |
Kindness's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Kindness's SSA record in two at 2025 and the more recent half accounts for 50% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 50%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2023, with only 6 births recorded.
Kindness popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 3 years of records
Kindness by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (12 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Kindness's strongest decade.
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Kindness births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 12 births (100% of all-time use).
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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Kindness: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2023)
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2023–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kindness draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.