Muskaan — girls' name
320 babies named Muskaan in U.S. Social Security records since 1998, with the highest year being 2004. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
60% of everyone ever named Muskaan was born in this single decade.
24 babies were named Muskaan in 2004 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Muskaan
The Social Security Administration has registered 320 babies named Muskaan between 1998 and 2023, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Muskaan currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 24 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Muskaan performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 191 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Muskaan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 65 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Muskaan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Muskaan 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 320 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.
Muskaan at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Muskaan popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1998
- Peak year (2004)
- 24
- Annual births at peak — across 26 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
320 total births across 26 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2004 with 24 births in a single year.
Muskaan by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 191 births that decade — 60% of Muskaan's all-time total
Muskaan decade highlights
- Peak decade 191 births
- Runner-up 89 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Muskaan's strongest decade
191 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 60% of all-time use.
Muskaan by state
Where Muskaan concentrates geographically — total births since 1998
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 65 | 20.3% |
65 of 320 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 20.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 20.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1998–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.