Girls' name · since 1927
Pasty
Pasty has 136 recorded births since 1927 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1956 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #23,812 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 136
- born since 1927
- 1950s
- peak decade
Pasty is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 136 have been recorded since 1927.
Pasty has 136 recorded births among girls since 1927, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1950s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1927 to 1975.
- #23,812 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 136 born since 1927
- 1950s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Pasty ranks #23,812 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 136 born since 1927, peaking in the 1950s.
- #23,812 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 136
- born since 1927
- 1950s
- peak decade
Pasty's 136 recorded births place it above 67.06% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Pasty's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Pasty splits its recorded history at 1955: 54% of all births land in the more recent half, 46% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1927 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1956 peak of 8 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Pasty popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1927–1975
- Peak year (1956)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 49 years of records
Pasty by decade
1950s is the heaviest window (62 births, 46% of the file).
1950s was Pasty's strongest decade.
62 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 46% of all-time use.
Pasty births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1920s 11
1920s
11 births
- 1930s 6
1930s
6 births
- 1940s 16
1940s
16 births
- 1950s
1950s
62 births
- 1960s
1960s
29 births
- 1970s 12
1970s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 1950s at 62 births (46% of all-time use).
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- Pasty's decade-level peak was the 1950s (62 total births); usage has since declined to 12 in the 1970s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Pasty: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 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, 1927–1975 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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 Pasty 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 August 2026.