Dimple
Dimple is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 800th, in 1919.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192478 births
- Best rank
- #800in 1919
- Since 1893
- 2,442people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,442 girls have been named Dimple in the United States since 1893, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 78 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 78 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 27%. It has spent 19 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dimple | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 25 | |
| 1900s | 119 | |
| 1910s | 399 | |
| 1920s | 666 | |
| 1930s | 467 | |
| 1940s | 286 | |
| 1950s | 166 | |
| 1960s | 73 | |
| 1970s | 67 | |
| 1980s | 110 | |
| 1990s | 59 | |
| 2000s | 5 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Dimple was the 851st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Dimple
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alenepeak 1920
- Lorinepeak 1922
- Clarispeak 1918
- Laverapeak 1925
- Burnicepeak 1925
- Ardellpeak 1922
- Eleasepeak 1923
- Aleasepeak 1925
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.