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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Southern

Recorded for both sexesGen Alpha

2025 rank

#13,021

down −3,535 places

2025 births

7

down −4 births

All-time births

114

6% of them in 2025

More common than

64%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2020
12 births
Best rank
#8,894
in 2020
First recorded
2007
#20,176 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2019
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
14 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 202012#8,894Peak
  2. 202411#9,486
  3. 201710#10,605
  4. 202210#10,303
  5. 20159#11,724

Rank over time

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

Best rank #8,894 in 2020 · peak births 12 in 2020

Boys and girls

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

● 37% boys■ 63% girls

67 boys · 114 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 Southern has ranked, decade by decade

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