Passion
Passion was given to 30 girls in 2025, #4,634 among girls’ names; 2,475 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,430 Americans named Passion and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 15 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Passion by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Passion?
#4,634 among girls’ names, 2025
Passion fell from #4,052 in 2015 to #4,634 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 20.7 to 18.7 per million.
85 babies in 1992, the peak
Passion peaked in 1992, when 85 girls were given it, #1,746 among girls’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,634 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,540 | 19.1 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,343 | 20.6 |
| 2022 | 37 | #4,020 | 22.6 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,541 | 26.8 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,925 | 34.6 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,899 | 22.6 |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,779 | 23.5 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,131 | 20.9 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,569 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #4,052 | 20.7 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,241 | 19.6 |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,506 | 25.6 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,621 | 39.2 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,589 | 25.0 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,038 | 31.5 |
| 2009 | 65 | #2,776 | 35.4 |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,049 | 30.1 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,960 | 31.7 |
| 2006 | 77 | #2,434 | 40.5 |
| 2005 | 84 | #2,199 | 45.5 |
| 2004 | 83 | #2,170 | 45.2 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,169 | 25.7 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,965 | 27.8 |
| 2001 | 70 | #2,296 | 38.9 |
| 2000 | 63 | #2,447 | 34.7 |
| 1999 | 66 | #2,276 | 37.2 |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,214 | 36.8 |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,872 | 45.4 |
| 1996 | 73 | #1,956 | 41.6 |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,205 | 34.7 |
| 1994 | 72 | #1,962 | 40.3 |
| 1993 | 63 | #2,137 | 34.8 |
| 1992 | 85 | #1,746 | 46.1 |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,945 | 38.4 |
| 1990 | 54 | #2,331 | 28.4 |
| 1989 | 53 | #2,263 | 28.7 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,775 | 21.3 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,075 | 17.8 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,517 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,484 | 14.5 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,587 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,120 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,876 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,217 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,473 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,169 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,253 | 15.7 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,146 | 16.3 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,643 | 20.5 |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,394 | 23.3 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,333 | 23.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Passion a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Passion has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Passion: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Passion, and how old are they?
2,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,475 Americans ever recorded as Passion. The median Passion alive today is 25 years old; half are between 15 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,649 people named Passion (1,621 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,226 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 179 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 726 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,030 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 503 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Passion born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 5 | #1,723 | 0.5× |
Where Passion is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Passion is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1974 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Passion with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Passion
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Passion and names like it
- Compare Passion and RadhikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sPassion peaked in 1992.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Passion since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Passion.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Passion alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.