Unborn — unisex name
32 babies named Unborn in U.S. Social Security records since 1975, with the highest year being 1975. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
100% of everyone ever named Unborn was born in this single decade.
19 babies were named Unborn in 1975 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Unborn
The Social Security Administration has registered 32 babies named Unborn between 1975 and 1976, spanning 2 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Unborn currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1976. The name reached its historical peak in 1975, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Unborn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 8 additional births since 1975.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Unborn performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 32 births during that ten-year window. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 32 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Unborn in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Unborn 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 32 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.
Unborn at a glance
Last recorded 1976Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Unborn popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1976–1975
- Peak year (1975)
- 19
- Annual births at peak — across 2 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1976.
32 total births across 2 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1975 with 19 births in a single year.
Unborn popularity over time — boys
8 total births recorded since 1975 (Unborn as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Unborn accounts for 20% of total recorded use across both genders.
Unborn by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 32 births that decade — 100% of Unborn's all-time total
Unborn decade highlights
- Peak decade 32 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Unborn's strongest decade
32 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 100% of all-time use.
Unborn by state
Where Unborn concentrates geographically — total births since 1975
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Tennessee | | 32 | 100.0% |
32 of 32 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Tennessee 100.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Tennessee accounts for 100.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration 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, 1975–1976 (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.