Girls' name · since 2008
Poem
42 babies named Poem in U.S. Social Security records since 2008, with the highest year being 2024. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #37,060 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,744 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 42
- born since 2008
- 2020s
- peak decade
Poem currently ranks #12744 among girls' names in America, with 42 babies recorded since 2008.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Poem has been recorded 42 times among girls since 2008, currently ranked #12744 nationally and more common than 26% 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 2008 to 2025.
- #37,060 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #12,744 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 42 born since 2008
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Poem ranks #37,060 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #12,744 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 42 born since 2008, peaking in the 2020s.
- #37,060 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,744 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 42
- born since 2008
- 2020s
- peak decade
Poem's 42 recorded births place it above 48.66% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Poem compares
42 14th 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
Poem's all-time total is 89% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Poem | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 42 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 9 | 21 | 19,840 |
Poem's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Poem's SSA record in two at 2022 and the more recent half accounts for 55% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 45%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2008, with only 6 births recorded -- set against the 2024 peak of 9, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Poem popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2008–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 18 years of records
Poem by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (30 births, 71% of the file).
2020s was Poem's strongest decade.
30 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 71% of all-time use.
Poem births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 6
2000s
6 births
- 2010s 6
2010s
6 births
- 2020s
2020s
30 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 30 births (71% of all-time use).
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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, 2008–2025 (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 Poem 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.