Memphis — #588 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Memphis

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,740 babies named Memphis between 1916 and 2024, spanning 109 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Memphis currently holds the #588 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 768 babies received it in a single year. Memphis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,404 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Memphis performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 4,454 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Memphis shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 902 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Memphis in 44 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Memphis 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 9,740 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.