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Goddess

Gender
Girl
Say it
GOD-ess
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#4,545 for girls

Goddess is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “female deity”. In 2025 it ranked 4,545th for girls in the US (30 babies).

What does Goddess mean?

English: English word used as a name

“female deity”

Is Goddess a girl's or a boy's name?

Goddess is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 30 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Goddess in the US?

Rank in 2025
#4,545among girls
Babies in 2025
30about 1 in 54,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 34% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 30 girls in the US were named Goddess, making it the 4,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,498th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 68 girls. It first appears in the records in 1957.

2025 had fewer girls named Goddess than any year since 2014.

Half of all the girls named Goddess in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

1957Busiest: 68 in 20192025
Goddess in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202530#4,545
202436#4,038
202348#3,329
202245#3,469
202163#2,715
202043#3,498
201968#2,561
201862#2,743
201751#3,145
201639#3,849
201541#3,704
201422#5,795
201316#7,368
201226#5,251
201121#6,145
201013#8,697
200919#6,808
200824#5,747
200714#8,516
200621#6,123
20058#11,828
20049#10,684
20030–
200210#9,476
20016#13,514
20006#13,147
19990–
19980–
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19810–
19800–
19790–
19780–
19770–
19760–
19750–
19740–
19730–
19720–
19710–
19700–
19690–
19680–
19670–
19660–
19650–
19640–
19630–
19620–
19610–
19600–
19590–
19580–
19576#5,376

Names like Goddess

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

More English names

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Goddess: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/goddess, updated 20 October 2026.