Race
Race was given to 12 boys in 2025, #7,090 among boys’ names; 1,411 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,360 Americans named Race and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 18 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Race by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Race?
#7,090 among boys’ names, 2025
Race fell from #3,853 in 2015 to #7,090 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.6 to 7.0 per million.
65 babies in 2002, the peak
Race peaked in 2002, when 65 boys were given it, #1,780 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #7,090 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 6 | #12,000 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,758 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,628 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,259 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,563 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 12 | #7,073 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 12 | #7,016 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,260 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 19 | #5,085 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,853 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,863 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,149 | 12.7 |
| 2012 | 35 | #3,218 | 18.5 |
| 2011 | 40 | #2,942 | 21.1 |
| 2010 | 34 | #3,289 | 17.7 |
| 2009 | 37 | #3,148 | 18.7 |
| 2008 | 46 | #2,708 | 22.5 |
| 2007 | 54 | #2,407 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 56 | #2,272 | 27.2 |
| 2005 | 63 | #1,996 | 31.5 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,181 | 27.2 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,115 | 26.8 |
| 2002 | 65 | #1,780 | 33.5 |
| 2001 | 42 | #2,371 | 21.6 |
| 2000 | 62 | #1,773 | 31.6 |
| 1999 | 55 | #1,815 | 28.6 |
| 1998 | 54 | #1,842 | 28.3 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,012 | 23.9 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,036 | 22.7 |
| 1995 | 36 | #2,240 | 18.9 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,915 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 34 | #2,276 | 17.3 |
| 1992 | 23 | #2,970 | 11.5 |
| 1991 | 21 | #3,080 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,728 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 21 | #2,966 | 10.5 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,825 | 10.4 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,619 | 11.2 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,232 | 8.1 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,262 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,870 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,037 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,022 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,052 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,810 | 2.9 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,940 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,880 | 4.9 |
| 1970 | 11 | #3,024 | 5.9 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,817 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,021 | 3.5 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,385 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,583 | 5.9 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,933 | 2.9 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,519 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,212 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,975 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,844 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,794 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,237 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Race a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Race has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Race: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Race, and how old are they?
1,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,411 Americans ever recorded as Race. The median Race alive today is 24 years old; half are between 18 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 1,346 people named Race (39 women and girls, 1,307 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,319 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 33 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 60 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 293 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 781 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 193 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,835 babies since 1880, Race is the second most given (50% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 40 babies (30%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Race
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 Race and names like it
- Compare Race and RayceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRace peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Race since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Race.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Race alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.