Girls' name · since 1961
Kricket
Since 1961, U.S. Social Security records show 40 babies named Kricket, peaking in 1987. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- 40
- total births
- 1961–1987
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 60%
- born in that decade
Kricket sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 40 recorded since 1961.
Kricket has 40 recorded births among girls since 1961, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1961 to 1987.
- 40 total births
- 1961–1987 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 60% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kricket's 40 recorded births place it above 48% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kricket's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Kricket splits its recorded history at 1982: 60% of all births land in the more recent half, 40% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1961 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1987 peak of 8 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Kricket popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1961–1987
- Peak year (1987)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 27 years of records
Kricket by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Kricket's strongest decade.
24 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 60% of all-time use.
Kricket births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s 5
1960s
5 births
- 1970s
1970s
11 births
- 1980s
1980s
24 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 24 births (60% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 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, 1961–1987 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kricket: Baby Name Since 1961 - 40 Births, Peak 1987." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kricket. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Kricket 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 July 2026.