Light — #5600 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Light

The Social Security Administration has registered 154 babies named Light between 2008 and 2024, spanning 17 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Light currently holds the #5600 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 26 babies received it in a single year. Light is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 67 additional births since 2014.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Light performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 92 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Light shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Light in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Light 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 154 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.