Girl
About 610 American babies have been named Girl since 1985, most of them around 2021. In 2025 it ranked 8,860th. About 600 Girls are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Girl
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 610
- Estimated living today
- 600
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 4,090th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,860th
- First recorded
- 1985
How old the living Girls are
born that year still alive today
Of the 610 babies given the name since 1985, about 600 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 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.
Notable Girls
- girl in red (born 1999)Norwegian musician
People named Girl with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Girl is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Girl is most concentrated in North Dakota (73.5×), Texas (3.8×), Ohio (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular girls’ names the year Girl peaked:
Related names
Girl against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.