Poet — #6555 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Poet

The Social Security Administration has registered 212 babies named Poet between 2005 and 2024, spanning 20 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Poet currently holds the #6555 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 21 babies received it in a single year. Poet is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 113 additional births since 2007.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Poet performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 92 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Poet shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Poet in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Poet 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 212 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.