Female · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Female.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1981

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 32 recorded years as a table

Female, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1981	3
1982	4
1983	3
1984	5
1985	3
1986	6
1987	18
1988	33
1989	23
1990	83
1991	79
1992	50
1993	50
1994	59
1995	60
1996	24
1997	13
1998	12
1999	13
2000	10
2001	8
2002	11
2003	5
2004	3
2005	4
2006	3
2010	16
2011	16
2012	21
2013	27
2014	40
2015	7

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Female isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

More like Female

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2015: 13
Rank in 2015: #8,447
How rare: 1 in 137,315 girls
Since 1981: 1,292

Female was last recorded in 2015. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1990, at 83 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Female doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.