Unique — #2199 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Unique

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,539 babies named Unique between 1972 and 2024, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Unique currently holds the #2199 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 292 babies received it in a single year. Unique is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 907 additional births since 1976.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Unique performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 2,476 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Unique shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,127 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Unique in 32 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Unique 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 7,539 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.