Rise — #15499 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Rise

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,099 babies named Rise between 1942 and 2024, spanning 83 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rise currently holds the #15499 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1955, when 67 babies received it in a single year. Rise is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 59 additional births since 2014.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rise performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 549 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Rise shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 126 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Rise in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rise 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 1,099 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.