Spenser
Spenser is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 503rd, in 1988.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1988333 births
- Best rank
- #503in 1988
- Since 1968
- 3,357people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,985 boys have been named Spenser in the United States since 1968, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1988, with 333 births.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 333 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1992, and the 1990s alone account for 47%. It has spent 10 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 372 girls have also been given it, 11% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1988, its biggest year
Spenser was the 503rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1988 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1988.
Names that rose and fell with Spenser
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sagarpeak 1993
- Rynepeak 1985
- Kylepeak 1990
- Cylepeak 1990
- Bijanpeak 1991
- Steffanpeak 1994
- Cotypeak 1992
- Codypeak 1992
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.