Unisex name · since 2007
Southern
114 babies named Southern in U.S. Social Security records since 2007, with the highest year being 2020. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #25,740 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,734 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 114
- born since 2007
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Southern is the #12734 most popular unisex name in the U.S. today, with 114 recorded since 2007.
Southern has 114 recorded births among girls since 2007, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #12734 as of the latest data, more common than 26% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2007 to 2025.
- #25,740 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #12,734 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 114 born since 2007
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Southern ranks #25,740 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #12,734 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 114 born since 2007, peaking in the 2020s.
- #25,740 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,734 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 114
- born since 2007
- 2020s
- peak decade
Southern's 114 recorded births place it above 64.39% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Southern compares
114 27th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Southern's all-time total is 70% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Southern | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 114 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 12 | 21 | 19,840 |
Southern's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Southern's SSA record in two at 2019 and the more recent half accounts for 56% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 44%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2007, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2020 peak of 12, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Southern popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2007–2025
- Peak year (2020)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 19 years of records
Southern popularity over time - boys
67 total births recorded since 1923 (Southern as boys' name)
Southern by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (56 births, 49% of the file).
2020s was Southern's strongest decade.
56 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 49% of all-time use.
Southern births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 12
2000s
12 births
- 2010s
2010s
46 births
- 2020s
2020s
56 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 56 births (49% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2007–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Southern draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.