Symphany
Symphany was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,738 among girls’ names; 271 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Symphany by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Symphany?
#14,738 among girls’ names, 2025
Symphany fell from #10,071 in 2015 to #14,738 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 3.7 per million.
19 babies in 2011, the peak
Symphany peaked in 2011, when 19 girls were given it, #6,818 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,738 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,058 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,927 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,123 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,047 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,321 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,395 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,742 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,952 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,017 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #10,071 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,465 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,336 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,803 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,818 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,724 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 16 | #8,011 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,499 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,470 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,310 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,278 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,196 | 6.5 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,323 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,638 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,603 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,283 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,234 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,500 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Symphany a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Symphany has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Symphany: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Symphany, and how old are they?
An estimated 269 Americans named Symphany and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 184 people named Symphany (184 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 226 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,051 babies since 1880, Symphany is the second most given (6.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 180 babies (3.3%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Symphany
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Symphany and names like it
- Compare Symphany and SymphonyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSymphany peaked in 2011.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Symphany.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Symphany alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.