Whisper
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- WIS-per
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Whisper is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “soft, hushed speech”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Whisper mean?
English: English word name
“soft, hushed speech”
A word name from Old English hwisprian, 'to whisper'.
Is Whisper a girl's or a boy's name?
Whisper is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Whisper in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Whisper, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 1996, with 40 girls. It first appears in the records in 1973.
Half of all the girls named Whisper in the US since 1880 were born between 1995 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.
Whisper in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,283 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,300 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,868 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,432 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,380 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,541 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,140 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,516 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,904 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,815 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,058 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,651 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,494 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,559 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,891 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,828 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,102 |
| 1996 | 40 | #2,961 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,017 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,598 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,045 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,307 |
| 1991 | 15 | #5,943 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,125 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,675 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,890 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,783 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,745 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,633 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,149 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,045 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,369 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,126 |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,059 |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,650 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,154 |
| 1975 | 6 | #7,982 |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,421 |
Names like Whisper
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Piper Winter Parker Spencer Hunter Harper Chandler Carter Ember Itzel Sawyer Taylor
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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, “Whisper: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/whisper, updated 20 October 2026.