How rare is the name Female?

18,869 people in the United States have the first name Female, about 1 in 16,007. It ranks #1,659 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

FEMALE

#1,659

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
18,869
About
1 in 16,007
This common or more
76.2%
Who bears it

Of the 18,869 people named Female, 53.2% reported their origin as White, 19.4% as Hispanic or Latino and 17.5% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Female peaked in 1990, when 157 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19812015
Peak year
1990
Births that year
157
In 2015
13 ▼92%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 1,297 babies have been given the name since 1981. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Female by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #3,071. The largest share of babies named Female, 71%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1980s#6,857178
1990s#3,071811
2000s#18,66480
2010s#9,708228
Millennials 1981–9671%
Generation Z 1997–1218.7%
2013 and later10.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Female is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Female has been most common in New Mexico (42×), New York (8.8×), and Kansas (6×), and least common in Kansas (6×).

1,104 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Female

#1,657 Kiera · 18,929#1,658 Melisa · 18,912#1,660 Jeri · 18,868#1,661 Jeannine · 18,843

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