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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Bow

Recorded for both sexesGen Alpha

2025 rank

#6,506

up +821 places

2025 births

13

up +2 births

All-time births

260

5% of them in 2025

More common than

75%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2022
21 births
Best rank
#4,727
in 2022
First recorded
1980
#6,356 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2014
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
24 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 202221#4,727Peak
  2. 201419#4,896
  3. 201719#4,963
  4. 201819#4,943
  5. 201918#5,184

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #4,727 in 2022 · peak births 21 in 2022

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 98% boys■ 2% girls

260 boys · 5 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Bow has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.