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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Memphis

Recorded for both sexesGen Alpha

2025 rank

#640

down −52 places

2025 births

437

down −50 births

All-time births

10,185

4% of them in 2025

More common than

97%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2021
768 births
Best rank
#404
in 2021
First recorded
1916
#3,095 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2015
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
41 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 2021768#404Peak
  2. 2019711#432
  3. 2022705#442
  4. 2020653#455
  5. 2018647#458

Rank over time

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

Best rank #404 in 2021 · peak births 768 in 2021

Boys and girls

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

● 80% boys■ 20% girls

10,185 boys · 2,550 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 Memphis has ranked, decade by decade

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