Girls' name · since 2011
Plum
16 babies named Plum in U.S. Social Security records since 2011, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #49,101 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,385 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 16
- born since 2011
- 2020s
- peak decade
16 babies have been named Plum since 2011, making it today's #14385 girls' name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Plum has been recorded 16 times among girls since 2011, currently ranked #14385 nationally and more common than 17% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2011 to 2025.
- #49,101 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,385 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 16 born since 2011
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Plum ranks #49,101 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,385 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 16 born since 2011, peaking in the 2020s.
- #49,101 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,385 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 16
- born since 2011
- 2020s
- peak decade
Plum's 16 recorded births place it above 31.73% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Plum compares
16 6th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Plum's all-time total is 96% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Plum | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 16 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 6 | 21 | 19,840 |
Plum's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Plum's full recorded timeline at 2022, 69% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 31% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2011, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 6 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Plum popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2011–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 15 years of records
Plum by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (11 births, 69% of the file).
2020s was Plum's strongest decade.
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 69% of all-time use.
Plum births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 11 births (69% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Plum: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~14 yrs)
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, 2011–2025 (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 Plum 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.