Spirit — #4586 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Spirit

The Social Security Administration has registered 832 babies named Spirit between 1975 and 2024, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Spirit currently holds the #4586 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 57 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Spirit performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 335 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Spirit shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Spirit in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Spirit 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 832 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.