Happiness
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- HAP-ee-ness
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Happiness is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “happiness”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Happiness mean?
English: English word used as a name
“happiness”
Used especially in Nigeria, Ghana and Tanzania, alongside other English word names like Blessing and Favour.
Is Happiness a girl's or a boy's name?
Happiness is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Happiness in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Happiness, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 2013.
Half of all the girls named Happiness in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Happiness in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,712 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
Names like Happiness
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Everly, Harlow, Marigold, Collins, Harper, Halo, Klarity, Juniper, Palmer, Elowyn, Royalty, Miller
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel
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, “Happiness: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/happiness, updated 20 October 2026.