Rebel — #2659 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Rebel

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,438 babies named Rebel between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rebel currently holds the #2659 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 130 babies received it in a single year. Rebel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 932 additional births since 1954.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rebel performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 578 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Rebel shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 110 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Rebel in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rebel 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 1,438 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.