Secret — #12362 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Secret

The Social Security Administration has registered 743 babies named Secret between 1967 and 2024, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Secret currently holds the #12362 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 35 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Secret performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 216 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Secret shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Secret in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Secret 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 743 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.