Happy
About 580 American babies have been named Happy since 1912, most of them around 1936. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 9,714th. About 400 Happys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 47.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Happy boys named Happy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 580
- Estimated living today
- 400
- Median age today
- 47
- Peak year
- 1936
- Best rank
- 1,872nd
- Rank in 2025
- 9,714th
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 270 / 310
How old the living Happys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 580 babies given the name since 1912, about 400 are alive — 70 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1978 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 Happys
- Happy Chandler (1898–1991)American politician, Governor of Kentucky, Baseball Commissioner
- Happy Rockefeller (1926–2015)Second Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977
- Happy Asmara (born 1999)Indonesian singer-songwriter and actress
- Happy Jankell (born 1993)Swedish actress
- Happy Rhodes (born 1965)American singer
- Happy Hairston (1942–2001)basketball player
People named Happy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Happy is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1936
The most popular boys’ names the year Happy peaked:
Happy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Happy | 15 | 7,126th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
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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.