Symphony
Symphony was given to 139 girls in 2025, #1,532 among girls’ names; 3,291 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,260 Americans named Symphony and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Symphony by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Symphony?
#1,532 among girls’ names, 2025
Symphony rose from #1,544 in 2015 to #1,532 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 80.7 to 86.5 per million.
184 babies in 2022, the peak
Symphony peaked in 2022, when 184 babies were given it (172 girls, #1,361 among girls’ names). The 145 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 79% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 139 | #1,532 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 148 | #1,481 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 159 | #1,413 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 172 | #1,361 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 151 | #1,431 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 169 | #1,307 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 146 | #1,500 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 137 | #1,584 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 131 | #1,654 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 137 | #1,613 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 144 | #1,544 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 136 | #1,587 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 137 | #1,574 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 119 | #1,742 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 130 | #1,653 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 87 | #2,235 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 95 | #2,137 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 78 | #2,461 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,537 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,810 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,998 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,840 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,457 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,793 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 67 | #2,372 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,259 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,140 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,165 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,434 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,585 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,069 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,877 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,276 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,360 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 26 | #4,040 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,503 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,498 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,285 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,111 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,953 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,958 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,726 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Symphony a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,291 Americans recorded as Symphony, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 139 girls and 6 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Symphony: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Symphony, and how old are they?
3,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,291 Americans ever recorded as Symphony. The median Symphony alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,924 people named Symphony (1,914 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,341 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 280 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,930 |
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 Symphony born?
The states with the most babies named Symphony are Texas, Florida and California, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,701 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,233 | 0.9× |
| California | 9 | #2,260 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,050 | 0.5× |
| New York | 8 | #1,642 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,195 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #1,026 | 0.3× |
| South Carolina | 7 | #681 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,424 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,360 | 0.4× |
Where Symphony is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Symphony is most over-represented in New York: since 1979 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Symphony with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,071 babies since 1880, Symphony is the most given (81% of them). In 2025 it was given to 145 of their 180 babies (81%), again the 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 Symphony
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 Symphony and names like it
- Compare Symphony and SymphanyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSymphony peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Symphony since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Symphony.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Symphony alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.