Race
Race is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 200265 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1954
- 1,399people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,399 boys have been named Race in the United States since 1954, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2002, with 65 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 38%.
By decade
In 2002, its biggest year
Race was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2002 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2002.
Names that rose and fell with Race
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Niklaspeak 2000
- Trevenpeak 2004
- Brennenpeak 2009
- Trentonpeak 2007
- Collenpeak 1997
- Collinpeak 1996
- Ulissespeak 1999
- Dallinpeak 2002
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.