Bowie
Recorded for both sexesGen Alpha2025 rank
#1,228
down −16 places
2025 births
164
down −3 births
All-time births
2,235
7% of them in 2025
More common than
93%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2021
- 237 births
- Best rank
- #952
- in 2021
- First recorded
- 1920
- #4,371 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 2018
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 37 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 2021237#952Peak
- 2018210#987
- 2022198#1,093
- 2023194#1,098
- 2020176#1,119
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #952 in 2021 · peak births 237 in 2021
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 63% boys■ 37% girls
2,235 boys · 1,285 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 Bowie has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.