Memory
The girl's name Memory has been in the national records since 1922, with 1,356 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 6,546th. About 1,200 Memorys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 35.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Memory boys named Memory
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,356
- Estimated living today
- 1,200
- Median age today
- 35
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 4,073rd
- Rank in 2025
- 6,546th
- First recorded
- 1922
- Girls / boys
- 1,350 / 6
How old the living Memorys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,356 babies given the name since 1922, about 1,200 are alive — 88 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1990 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 Memorys
- Memory Banda (born 1996)Malawian children's rights activist
People named Memory with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Memory is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Memory is most concentrated in California (5.8×), Texas (3.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular girls’ names the year Memory peaked:
Related names
Memory 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.