Spenser
Spenser was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,799 among boys’ names; 3,363 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,240 Americans named Spenser and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 28 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Spenser by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Spenser?
#11,799 among boys’ names, 2025
Spenser fell from #6,621 in 2015 to #11,799 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 3.5 per million.
359 babies in 1988, the peak
Spenser peaked in 1988, when 359 babies were given it (333 boys, #503 among boys’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 6 | #11,799 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 8 | #9,742 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 7 | #10,650 | |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,105 | 6 | #12,113 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 11 | #7,504 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 12 | #6,981 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 6 | #11,939 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 11 | #7,546 | |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,507 | 5 | #13,971 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,767 | 13 | #6,621 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #14,376 | 14 | #6,259 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 12 | #6,957 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 15 | #5,945 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,212 | 16 | #5,636 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 14 | #6,314 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 18 | #5,280 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 21 | #4,681 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 31 | #3,496 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 22 | #4,346 | |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,178 | 29 | #3,437 |
| 2004 | under 5 | 40 | #2,683 | |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,051 | 51 | #2,169 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,433 | 64 | #1,809 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,914 | 67 | #1,726 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,774 | 84 | #1,473 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,228 | 83 | #1,414 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,766 | 94 | #1,283 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,834 | 110 | #1,136 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,344 | 137 | #946 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,492 | 170 | #820 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,498 | 127 | #983 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,859 | 108 | #1,074 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,202 | 161 | #831 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,524 | 182 | #754 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,424 | 218 | #686 |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,310 | 261 | #609 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,672 | 333 | #503 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,841 | 248 | #579 |
| 1986 | under 5 | 93 | #951 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 24 | #2,286 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 10 | #4,162 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #7,185 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 7 | #5,288 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 5 | #6,637 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #6,729 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 8 | #4,365 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 6 | #4,841 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 7 | #4,179 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 6 | #4,081 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Spenser a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,363 Americans recorded as Spenser, 11% are girls and 89% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 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 Spenser: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Spenser, and how old are they?
3,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,363 Americans ever recorded as Spenser. The median Spenser alive today is 34 years old; half are between 28 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 3,192 people named Spenser (361 women and girls, 2,831 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,223 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 39 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,240 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 822 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 139 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Spenser born?
The states with the most babies named Spenser are California, Texas and Florida, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 345 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 135 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 99 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 85 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 83 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 81 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Washington | 70 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 60 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 60 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Iowa | 56 | not ranked | 1.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Spenser with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Spenser?
Spenser is a less common spelling of Spencer: SSA has recorded 3,363 Spenser and 129,638 Spencer since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 133,001 babies since 1880, Spenser is the second most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 1,159 babies (<1%), 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 Spenser
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1960-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Coty | 6,303 |
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 Spenser and names like it
- Compare Spenser and SpencerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSpenser peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Spenser since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Spenser.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Spenser alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.