Smiley Popularity by Year

Follow Smiley across every available national year. Rankings and birth counts remain separated by the source dataset’s girl and boy categories.

Smiley birth-count history

The chart samples long histories for faster loading. The complete table below includes every recorded year.

Year	Category	Births	Rank	Change from previous recorded year
2025	Girls	6	#13,208	—
1971	Boys	5	#4,907	Down 1,370 places
1965	Boys	6	#3,537	Up 502 places
1964	Boys	5	#4,039	Down 399 places
1962	Boys	6	#3,640	Up 398 places
1960	Boys	5	#4,038	Down 419 places
1959	Boys	6	#3,619	Down 60 places
1958	Boys	6	#3,559	Down 7 places
1957	Boys	6	#3,552	Down 924 places
1956	Boys	10	#2,628	Up 336 places
1955	Boys	8	#2,964	Down 221 places
1954	Boys	9	#2,743	Up 991 places
1952	Boys	5	#3,734	Down 370 places
1951	Boys	6	#3,364	Down 594 places
1950	Boys	8	#2,770	Down 164 places
1949	Boys	9	#2,606	Up 404 places
1948	Boys	7	#3,010	Up 360 places
1947	Boys	6	#3,370	Down 32 places
1945	Boys	5	#3,338	Down 476 places
1944	Boys	7	#2,862	Down 130 places
1943	Boys	8	#2,732	Up 480 places
1942	Boys	6	#3,212	Down 721 places
1941	Boys	9	#2,491	Down 203 places
1939	Boys	10	#2,288	Up 887 places
1938	Boys	6	#3,175	Down 270 places
1937	Boys	7	#2,905	Up 347 places
1935	Boys	6	#3,252	Up 25 places
1934	Boys	6	#3,277	Down 639 places
1932	Boys	9	#2,638	Up 226 places
1931	Boys	8	#2,864	Down 255 places
1930	Boys	10	#2,609	Up 748 places
1928	Boys	7	#3,357	Down 445 places
1927	Boys	9	#2,912	Down 610 places
1926	Boys	13	#2,302	Up 1,106 places
1925	Boys	7	#3,408	Down 586 places
1924	Boys	10	#2,822	Up 1,000 places
1923	Boys	6	#3,822	Down 570 places
1922	Boys	8	#3,252	Up 1,070 places
1921	Boys	5	#4,322	Down 1,355 places
1920	Boys	9	#2,967	Up 148 places
1919	Boys	8	#3,115	Down 572 places
1918	Boys	11	#2,543	Up 189 places
1917	Boys	9	#2,732	Up 194 places
1916	Boys	8	#2,926	Down 742 places
1915	Boys	12	#2,184	Up 273 places
1914	Boys	8	#2,457	Up 39 places
1913	Boys	6	#2,496	Down 1,432 places
1904	Boys	6	#1,064	Up 246 places
1900	Boys	5	#1,310	—