Fun Facts About the Name Infinity
- More than 1 thousand babies named Infinity: U.S. records list 1,049 babies given the name Infinity from 1880 through 2025. Even 20 boys received the name Infinity - about 1 boy for every 51 girls.
What Does the Name Infinity Mean?
Infinity is the English noun for endlessness, or the state of having no limit, used as a given name. The word entered English from Old French infinité, which descends from Latin infīnītās, an abstract noun built on infīnītus, "unbounded" or "unlimited." Infīnītus joins the negative prefix in- ("not") with fīnītus ("limited, finished"), the past participle of fīnīre ("to bound, bring to an end"), which comes from fīnis ("end, boundary"). The literal sense is therefore "not limited," and the customary sense is endlessness or boundlessness.
In mathematics the word names a quantity without bound, and in everyday use it can mean endless extent or endless time. Those are extensions of the same core sense rather than independent origins.
Infinity Name History & Origins
The word itself is old in English. It was borrowed from Old French infinité, which comes from Latin infīnītās, and it appears in Middle English writing. Its use as a personal name belongs to the modern English habit of taking ordinary words directly as given names, the same pattern that produced names such as Hope and Grace and, more recently, other common nouns used as names. In this pattern the noun is adopted whole, without translation, shortening, or respelling.
The mathematical sense has a concrete marker: the symbol ∞, introduced in 1655 by the English mathematician John Wallis, became the standard notation for an unbounded quantity. Because the word also carries the plain sense of limitlessness, the name picks up both the everyday meaning and the echo of the mathematical sign.
Since it comes straight from a common noun rather than from a saint's name, a biblical figure, or an older Germanic compound, Infinity has no chain of transmitted forms behind it, the way Iohannes stands behind John; its history as a name is the history of the English word.
How Popular is the Name Infinity?
Infinity has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 1997. Its best rank was #2,008 in 1997.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #4,698 | 29 | 0.0018% |
| 2024 | #3,900 | 38 | 0.0024% |
| 2023 | #3,795 | 40 | 0.0025% |
| 2022 | #3,558 | 44 | 0.0027% |
| 2021 | #4,191 | 34 | 0.0021% |
| 2020 | #3,072 | 52 | 0.0032% |
| 2019 | #3,575 | 43 | 0.0026% |
| 2018 | #4,106 | 35 | 0.0021% |
| 2017 | #4,171 | 35 | 0.0020% |
| 2016 | #5,050 | 27 | 0.0015% |
| 2015 | #5,726 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2014 | #6,077 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 2013 | #8,299 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2012 | #7,592 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2011 | #8,357 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2010 | #7,029 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2009 | #8,197 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2008 | #8,277 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2007 | #5,964 | 23 | 0.0012% |
| 2006 | #6,445 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2005 | #6,641 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2004 | #5,824 | 21 | 0.0011% |
| 2003 | #4,855 | 26 | 0.0014% |
| 2002 | #4,320 | 29 | 0.0016% |
| 2001 | #3,508 | 38 | 0.0021% |
| 2000 | #3,233 | 42 | 0.0023% |
| 1999 | #2,759 | 50 | 0.0028% |
| 1998 | #2,707 | 50 | 0.0028% |
| 1997 | #2,008 | 71 | 0.0041% |
| 1996 | #2,688 | 46 | 0.0026% |
| 1995 | #2,893 | 41 | 0.0023% |
| 1994 | #4,588 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 1993 | #5,073 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #12,741 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2024 | #12,972 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2020 | #12,807 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2016 | #12,950 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Infinity Shapes Your Personality and Life?
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