Rise
Rise was last recorded in 2025, when 15 babies were given it; 1,173 Americans have been recorded with it between 1942 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rise by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rise?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,177, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
67 babies in 1955, the peak
Rise peaked in 1955, when 67 girls were given it, #1,242 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #17,177 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,822 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,906 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,027 | 3.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,321 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,061 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,964 | 4.8 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,432 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,382 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,106 | 5.5 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 9 | #6,119 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,240 | 4.8 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,177 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,882 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,582 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,060 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,441 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,821 | 11.8 |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,021 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,459 | 13.7 |
| 1963 | 54 | #1,539 | 28.0 |
| 1962 | 33 | #2,064 | 16.8 |
| 1961 | 41 | #1,800 | 20.3 |
| 1960 | 39 | #1,831 | 19.3 |
| 1959 | 53 | #1,491 | 26.2 |
| 1958 | 52 | #1,492 | 25.8 |
| 1957 | 54 | #1,451 | 26.4 |
| 1956 | 63 | #1,317 | 31.4 |
| 1955 | 67 | #1,242 | 34.3 |
| 1954 | 52 | #1,405 | 26.8 |
| 1953 | 60 | #1,256 | 31.9 |
| 1952 | 59 | #1,247 | 31.8 |
| 1951 | 49 | #1,335 | 27.2 |
| 1950 | 40 | #1,467 | 23.4 |
| 1949 | 37 | #1,535 | 21.6 |
| 1948 | 41 | #1,453 | 24.1 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,850 | 15.8 |
| 1946 | 19 | #2,213 | 12.1 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,695 | 19.1 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,600 | 9.8 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,117 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,396 | 11.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rise a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,173 Americans recorded as Rise, 94% are girls and 6% boys. In 2025 it went to 15 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rise: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rise, and how old are they?
An estimated 944 Americans named Rise and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 62 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,037 people named Rise (1,002 women and girls, 35 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 932 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
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 Rise born?
The states with the most babies named Rise are New York, California and Ohio, with 75% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 126 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 39 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 13 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 13 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Rise is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rise is most over-represented in New York: since 1942 it was given 1.3 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 girls’ 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 Rise with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,881 babies since 1880, Rise is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 52 babies (29%), 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 Rise
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 Rise and names like it
- Compare Rise and RisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sRise peaked in 1955.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rise since 1910.
- The top names of 1955The year the most babies were named Rise.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Rise alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.