Easter
Easter is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 415th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1925133 births
- Best rank
- #415in 1883
- Since 1880
- 5,513people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,513 girls have been named Easter in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 133 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 133 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 63 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Easter | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 154 | |
| 1890s | 295 | |
| 1900s | 412 | |
| 1910s | 901 | |
| 1920s | 1,141 | |
| 1930s | 820 | |
| 1940s | 618 | |
| 1950s | 522 | |
| 1960s | 286 | |
| 1970s | 152 | |
| 1980s | 106 | |
| 1990s | 61 | |
| 2000s | 29 | |
| 2010s | 16 |
In 1925, its biggest year
Easter was the 636th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1925 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1925.
Names that rose and fell with Easter
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Idellapeak 1921
- Annispeak 1920
- Ardeliapeak 1924
- Tinypeak 1920
- Florancepeak 1917
- Rosenapeak 1923
- Rosepeak 1917
- Alicepeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.