Passion
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- PASH-un
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #4,545 for girls
Passion is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “passion, strong emotion”. In 2025 it ranked 4,545th for girls in the US (30 babies).
What does Passion mean?
English: English word, from Latin passio 'suffering'
“passion, strong emotion”
Its original sense, 'suffering', survives in the Christian term the Passion of Christ.
Is Passion a girl's or a boy's name?
Passion 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 Passion in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,545among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 30about 1 in 54,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 30% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 30 girls in the US were named Passion, making it the 4,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,890th. Its busiest year was 1992, with 85 girls. It first appears in the records in 1974.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 5 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Passion than any year since 1986.
Half of all the girls named Passion in the US since 1880 were born between 1992 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
Passion in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,545 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,471 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,274 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,961 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,490 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,890 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,850 |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,738 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,065 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,523 |
| 2015 | 37 | #3,988 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,176 |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,463 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,597 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,549 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,009 |
| 2009 | 65 | #2,751 |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,016 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,930 |
| 2006 | 77 | #2,419 |
| 2005 | 84 | #2,179 |
| 2004 | 83 | #2,152 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,128 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,931 |
| 2001 | 70 | #2,284 |
| 2000 | 63 | #2,422 |
| 1999 | 66 | #2,255 |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,185 |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,861 |
| 1996 | 73 | #1,945 |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,184 |
| 1994 | 72 | #1,947 |
| 1993 | 63 | #2,122 |
| 1992 | 85 | #1,736 |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,927 |
| 1990 | 54 | #2,312 |
| 1989 | 53 | #2,245 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,739 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,028 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,457 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,418 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,526 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,064 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,714 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,147 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,411 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,051 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,196 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,082 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,601 |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,357 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,290 |
Names like Passion
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Names related to Passion
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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, “Passion: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/passion, updated 20 October 2026.