Worth
Worth was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,780 among boys’ names; 2,204 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Worth by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Worth?
#6,780 among boys’ names, 2025
Worth rose from #8,707 in 2015 to #6,780 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.7 to 7.6 per million.
67 babies in 1918, the peak
Worth peaked in 1918, when 67 boys were given it, #804 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,780 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,421 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 19 | #5,239 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,254 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,323 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,947 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,691 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,591 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 10 | #8,106 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,700 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (120)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #8,707 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,585 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 10 | #8,114 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 10 | #8,040 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,662 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,603 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,500 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #10,301 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,973 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,739 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,399 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,120 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #5,131 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,291 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,310 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,611 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,458 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,274 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #5,046 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,840 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #4,001 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,792 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,991 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #5,088 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,736 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,957 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,829 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #5,026 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #3,104 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 16 | #2,028 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,939 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,846 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 11 | #2,666 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 13 | #2,362 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,406 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 17 | #2,035 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #3,033 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,813 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,089 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,624 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 20 | #1,789 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,042 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 22 | #1,675 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,937 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 24 | #1,551 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 20 | #1,699 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,499 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 20 | #1,701 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 21 | #1,694 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,438 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 18 | #1,630 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,326 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,366 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,466 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 17 | #1,758 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,077 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,424 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 16 | #1,816 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 40 | #1,015 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 27 | #1,295 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 33 | #1,164 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 31 | #1,212 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 35 | #1,123 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 25 | #1,425 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 41 | #1,063 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 32 | #1,281 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 38 | #1,136 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 34 | #1,253 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 45 | #1,059 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 48 | #1,009 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 52 | #944 | 0.05 |
| 1924 | 57 | #935 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 48 | #1,025 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 55 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 53 | #972 | 0.05 |
| 1920 | 59 | #902 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 65 | #818 | 0.07 |
| 1918 | 67 | #804 | 0.07 |
| 1917 | 47 | #945 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 58 | #823 | 0.07 |
| 1915 | 53 | #855 | 0.06 |
| 1914 | 31 | #1,017 | 0.05 |
| 1913 | 36 | #804 | 0.07 |
| 1912 | 35 | #734 | 0.08 |
| 1911 | 13 | #980 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,115 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,154 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,367 | 0.04 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,091 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,247 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 8 | #998 | 0.06 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,061 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 11 | #732 | 0.09 |
| 1900 | 13 | #741 | 0.09 |
| 1899 | 10 | #713 | 0.09 |
| 1898 | 14 | #608 | 0.11 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,227 | 0.04 |
| 1896 | 7 | #980 | 0.06 |
| 1895 | 8 | #869 | 0.07 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,234 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 7 | #904 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,064 | 0.05 |
| 1891 | 6 | #958 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 8 | #811 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 11 | #647 | 0.09 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,107 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 7 | #847 | 0.06 |
| 1882 | 7 | #835 | 0.06 |
| 1881 | 7 | #778 | 0.07 |
| 1880 | 8 | #744 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Worth a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Worth has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 120 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Worth: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Worth, and how old are they?
An estimated 634 Americans named Worth and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (29% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 15 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 711 people named Worth (30 women and girls, 681 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 669 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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 Worth born?
The states with the most babies named Worth are North Carolina, Texas and Virginia, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 758 | not ranked | 11.5× |
| Texas | 62 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| South Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Worth is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Worth is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 11.5 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 boys’ 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 Worth with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Worth
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 Worth and names like it
- Compare Worth and EwingBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sWorth peaked in 1918.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Worth since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Worth.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Worth alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.