Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Prophecy**

#22,657 most common boys' name of all time · #59,252 across all names · 50% male / 50% female · used 2022–2025 · genuinely unisex

Rank among boys
#22,657
Rank overall
#59,252 of 105,966
First appeared
2022
Years on the list
3 of 146
All-time
32
Since 2016
32
Peak year
2022 #8,293
Best rank
#8,293 2022
Girls Boys peak 15/yr

Prophecy first appears in 2022. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
2025 6 6 12 #11,820
2023 5 5
2022 5 10 15 #8,293