Purpose — #5743 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Purpose

The Social Security Administration has registered 115 babies named Purpose between 2008 and 2024, spanning 17 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Purpose currently holds the #5743 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 22 babies received it in a single year. Purpose is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 48 additional births since 2019.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Purpose performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 85 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Purpose shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Purpose in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Purpose 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 115 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.