Gender-neutral · #2718 in 2025

Unknown

Unknown: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#2718
Born 2025
47
Peak year
1954

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 boys born

Unknown per 100,000 boys born, by year. Peak: 1954. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Unknown has held steady: its share of boys born has barely moved over the last 10 years. It now stands at 10% of its 1954 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 41% of children named Unknown were recorded as girls and 59% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.