Success — #16715 US unisex name
117 babies named Success in U.S. Social Security records since 2010, with the highest year being 2019. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 5% of names given to girls today.
58% of everyone ever named Success was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Success in 2019 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Success
The Social Security Administration has registered 117 babies named Success between 2010 and 2024, spanning 15 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Success currently holds the #16715 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Success is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 87 additional births since 2007.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Success performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 68 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Success shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Success in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Success 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 117 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.
Success at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Success popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2010
- Peak year (2019)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 15 years of records
Currently ranks #16715 among girls.
117 total births across 15 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2019 with 17 births in a single year.
Success popularity over time — boys
87 total births recorded since 2007 (Success as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Success accounts for 43% of total recorded use across both genders.
Success by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 68 births that decade — 58% of Success's all-time total
Success decade highlights
- Peak decade 68 births
- Runner-up 49 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Success's strongest decade
68 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 58% of all-time use.
Success by state
Where Success concentrates geographically — total births since 2010
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 4.3% |
5 of 117 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 4.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 4.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2010–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.