Rebel
Recorded 1912–2025 · United States
Rebel was most popular in 2021, when 186 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,336 that year. In 2025 it ranked #3,970, with 84 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,456 people named Rebel.
Rebel over time
How old is the name Rebel?
Rebel first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1912, which makes it about 113 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 71 of the 114 years since.
How many people are named Rebel?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,456 American births named Rebel between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,378 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Rebel in 2025?
84 American babies were named Rebel in 2025, ranking #3,970 that year.
Is Rebel getting more or less popular?
Rebel is rising. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 116 births a year, against 78 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +49% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Rebel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Rebel is a unisex name — 60.7% of the 2,456 Americans given it were girls and 39.3% were boys. It changed hands: since 2014 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 65% girls and 35% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Rebel?
Roughly 2,378 Americans named Rebel are alive today — 97% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 10 years old, and half are between 6 and 20.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Rebel is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org