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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Rebel

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#3,204

down −552 places

2025 births

50

down −16 births

All-time births

1,490

3% of them in 2025

More common than

92%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2021
130 births
Best rank
#1,620
in 2021
First recorded
1912
#3,343 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2005
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
62 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 2021130#1,620Peak
  2. 2018106#1,897
  3. 2016102#1,968
  4. 202094#2,001
  5. 201585#2,231

Rank over time

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

Best rank #1,620 in 2021 · peak births 130 in 2021

Boys and girls

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

● 39% boys■ 61% girls

966 boys · 1,490 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 Rebel has ranked, decade by decade

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