December
About 1,619 American babies have been named December since 1960, most of them around 2012. In 2025 it ranked 5,722nd. About 1,600 Decembers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,619
- Estimated living today
- 1,600
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 2012
- Best rank
- 3,464th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,722nd
- First recorded
- 1960
- Girls / boys
- 1,608 / 11
How old the living Decembers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,619 babies given the name since 1960, about 1,600 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 630 of them are children and 4 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a month name, from English
From Middle English December, Decembre, from Old French decembre, from Latin december (“tenth month”), from Latin decem (“ten”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix; December was the tenth month in the Roman calendar.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where December is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, December is most concentrated in Texas (4.5×), California (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2012
The most popular girls’ names the year December peaked:
Related names
December against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.