Infant
About 8,138 American babies have been named Infant since 1983, most of them around 1990. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 7,900 Infants are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Infant boys named Infant
Girls and boys called Infant
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Infant crossed from girls to boys in 2002, and has stayed there for 5 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 62% boys, and in 2024 it was 53%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 27 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 8,138
- Estimated living today
- 7,900
- Median age today
- 30
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 389th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1983
- Girls / boys
- 3,908 / 4,230
How old the living Infants are
born that year still alive today
Of the 8,138 babies given the name since 1983, about 7,900 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 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.
Where Infant is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Infant is most concentrated in Texas (11.0×), Indiana (4.5×), Maine (0.6×), Florida (0.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular boys’ names the year Infant peaked:
Related names
Infant against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.