Psalm
Psalm is given to both girls and boys: 82 girls and 194 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,252 among girls’ names and #1,110 among boys’, #1,796 among all names counting both); 1,120 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,110 Americans named Psalm and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 3 years old and half are between 2 and 5.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Psalm by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Psalm?
#1,110 among boys’ names, 2025
Psalm rose from #11,745 in 2015 to #1,110 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.00 to 0.11 per 1,000.
276 babies in 2025, the peak
Psalm peaked in 2025, when 276 babies were given it (194 boys, #1,110 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 177 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 82 | #2,252 | 194 | #1,110 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,883 | 177 | #1,174 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,753 | 121 | #1,486 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,133 | 76 | #2,018 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,614 | 61 | #2,293 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,859 | 39 | #3,017 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,468 | 16 | #5,734 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,238 | 7 | #10,466 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,785 | 5 | #13,764 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,236 | 8 | #9,459 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,999 | 6 | #11,745 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,582 | 11 | #7,421 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,746 | 9 | #8,599 |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,003 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,158 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,850 | 7 | #10,684 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,016 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,099 | 7 | #10,608 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,839 | 7 | #9,680 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,286 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,927 | 5 | #11,699 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,225 | 5 | #11,165 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Psalm a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,120 Americans recorded as Psalm, 32% are girls and 68% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Psalm: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Psalm, and how old are they?
1,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,120 Americans ever recorded as Psalm. The median Psalm alive today is 3 years old; half are between 2 and 5.
The 2020 Census counted 298 people named Psalm (153 women and girls, 145 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 222 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 91 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,020 |
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 Psalm born?
The states with the most babies named Psalm are Texas, California and Florida, with 57% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 49 | #802 | 1.1× |
| California | 25 | #1,187 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 21 | #996 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 16 | #1,005 | 0.6× |
| New York | 13 | #979 | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 10 | #715 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,188 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,091 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 7 | #872 | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 6 | #743 | 0.3× |
Where Psalm is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Psalm is most over-represented in Texas: since 1999 it was given 1.1 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 boys’ 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 Psalm 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 Psalm
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 Psalm and names like it
- Compare Psalm and ChosenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sPsalm peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Psalm since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Psalm.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Psalm alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with PMost given first.