Rankings
Fastest Rising Girl Names (2015 vs 2025)
Girl names with the largest percentage growth over the past decade.
- Lainey
- #1 name
- 50
- names ranked
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
Lainey tops fastest rising girl names (2015 vs 2025) at +980.6% -- it takes just +139.7% to crack this 50-name list, a 7x spread from #1 to #50.
- +980.6%
- Lainey, #1
- +139.7%
- Vienna, #50 (the cutoff)
- 7x
- spread, top to bottom
Same ranked rows that render the table below -- row 1 here is row 1 there.
Lainey tops the fastest rising girl names (2015 vs 2025) list with a growth % of +980.6%.
According to Social Security Administration data, Lainey leads the fastest rising girl names (2015 vs 2025) ranking at +980.6%, ahead of Stevie (+442.0%) and Alaia (+440.3%). This ranking covers 50 names total, sorted by growth % from SSA birth-registration files.
- Lainey #1 by growth %
- Stevie #2
- 50 names ranked
What This Ranking Tells Us
These names show the largest measured rise in girl-name births over the latest ten-year SSA window. The ranking reports a change in recorded births, not a proven cause or forecast: a fast rise can persist, level off, or reverse. The growth percentage compares 2025 births to 2015 births, requiring at least 100 births in 2015 and 500 in 2025 to qualify.
What the Data Says About This Ranking
This ranking lists 50 names drawn from the Social Security Administration's baby-name archive, filtered and sorted by growth %. The #1 entry is Lainey with a growth % of +980.6%, followed by Stevie at +442.0% and Alaia at +440.3%. The bottom of the list, Vienna (+139.7%), helps define the cutoff qualifying a name for inclusion here. Every name in this ranking meets the SSA's five-occurrence minimum threshold for public disclosure, so private rare names are excluded from consideration.
Across all 50 ranked entries, the average growth % is +251.0%, giving a statistical center of gravity for what "popular" means in this specific ranking context. These names show the largest measured rise in girl-name births over the latest ten-year SSA window. Rankings of this type are sensitive to how the underlying data is cut: a top-50 list reflects different signals than a top-500 list, and combining spelling variants (Sophia + Sofia) versus keeping them separate, as the SSA does, produces materially different orderings. The rankings displayed here use the SSA's raw spelling-specific data without combining variants.
Because the SSA updates its baby-name files annually (typically each May), this ranking can shift year over year as new birth cohorts are added and historical revisions are applied. Names that appear to be rising or falling should be interpreted against the five-year-minimum sample sizes SSA requires; short-term movement on a single-year basis can be noisy. Source: Social Security Administration, Baby Names Data. This page summarizes publicly released SSA data and is provided for research and informational purposes only; it is not intended as personal naming advice or a recommendation of any specific name for a given child.
The bar to make this list
Where the #50 cutoff (Vienna, +139.7%) sits among qualifying girl names
140% Top 10% higher than 90% of 515 qualifying girl names
every girl name meeting the 100-in-2015/500-in-2025 threshold, bucketed by value
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more qualifying girl names. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source Social Security Administration, Baby Names Data · 2026-08-11
Source: Social Security Administration, Baby Names Data - U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications (ssa.gov).
Source: SSA Baby Names Methodology, names with fewer than 5 annual occurrences are excluded to protect privacy.
Frequently Asked Questions
What drives a name to rise rapidly?
The SSA files measure how many babies received each name, not why parents chose it. Media, family preferences, spelling changes, and broader cultural shifts may all matter, but this ranking does not assign a cause.
Do fast-rising names stay popular?
Not necessarily. This list measures a ten-year change in recorded births, not a forecast. Check the year-by-year trend on an individual name page before treating a recent rise as a long-term pattern.
Nearby Rankings
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
According to the Social Security Administration, as of June 2026 this ranking is computed directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files, which document 105,966 distinct names across 2,181,032 national year-by-name records spanning 1880-2025.
What to do with this ranking
- Lainey leads this list at +980.6%, 7.0x the #50 entry (Vienna, +139.7%) -- a steep drop-off across the list.
- See Lainey's full history -- year-by-year SSA data, decade breakdown, and state popularity. Lainey's profile
- Want to weigh two names from this list against each other? Compare names
Every name in this ranking meets the SSA's five-occurrence minimum threshold for public disclosure.
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Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This growth % ranking is computed directly from the SSA's raw name files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.