Fun Facts About the Name Supreme
- 584 babies named Supreme: U.S. records list 584 babies given the name Supreme from 1880 through 2025. Even 14 girls received the name Supreme - about 1 girl for every 41 boys.
What Does the Name Supreme Mean?
Supreme is an English word name meaning "highest" or "greatest." It goes back to Latin supremus, the superlative form of superus ("that is above"), which was built on super ("above, over"). Latin supremus carried the senses "highest, uppermost, last, final," and the word reached English by way of Old French supreme. In English it describes what is highest in rank, authority, or degree, as in supreme power, the Supreme Court, or the Supreme Being. Used as a personal name, it keeps that literal sense of "highest" rather than standing for a separate symbolic idea.
Supreme Name History & Origins
Supreme belongs to the long English practice of making common words into personal names, especially words for qualities a family hoped a child would show. Grace, Hope, Prudence, and Noble are older members of that group; Supreme works the same way, as an aspirational word rather than a name inherited from a saint or a medieval favorite. Its route into English is the one the word itself took: Latin supremus became Old French supreme, and the spelling supreme has been the standard English form since the Middle English period.
As a given name it is uncommon. It is found chiefly in English-speaking countries, above all the United States, where it is used for boys and girls and also appears as a middle name. The word has had a much larger public life than the name: it appears constantly in titles and phrases such as Supreme Court, Supreme Commander, and Supreme Being, and that ordinary-word familiarity, rather than a saint's legend or a royal line, is the background against which the rare given name is chosen.
How Popular is the Name Supreme?
Supreme 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 2021. Its best rank was #2,764 in 2021.
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 | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | #13,311 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2020 | #13,307 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #3,501 | 33 | 0.0019% |
| 2024 | #3,500 | 33 | 0.0019% |
| 2023 | #3,105 | 40 | 0.0023% |
| 2022 | #3,327 | 36 | 0.0021% |
| 2021 | #2,764 | 46 | 0.0026% |
| 2020 | #2,835 | 43 | 0.0025% |
| 2019 | #2,933 | 42 | 0.0023% |
| 2018 | #3,044 | 39 | 0.0021% |
| 2017 | #4,313 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 2016 | #5,104 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2015 | #7,015 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2014 | #5,230 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 2013 | #7,483 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2012 | #5,951 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2011 | #7,987 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2010 | #8,704 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2009 | #7,624 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2008 | #9,747 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2007 | #9,659 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2006 | #7,916 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2005 | #7,574 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2004 | #5,755 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 2003 | #9,469 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2002 | #6,027 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2001 | #8,213 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2000 | #8,108 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1999 | #6,450 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1998 | #8,337 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1997 | #10,608 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1995 | #10,133 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1994 | #7,654 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1983 | #7,199 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1982 | #7,244 | 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 Supreme Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You are spiritually intense and can sting or charm. Your name brings love and new starts into life and attracts money. In business, you are the creator and promoter of original ideas and usually enjoy considerable financial success. Emergencies may raise your intuitive abilities in order to resolve conflict or situation. You become very creative under the pressure, and have quite original ideas to make the best out of it.
You are very intuitive. You have a reservoir of inspired wisdom combined with inherited analytical ability, which could reward you through expressions of spiritual leadership, business analysis, marketing, artistic visions, and scientific research. Operating on spiritual side of your individuality can bring you to the great heights, and drop you off if you neglect your spiritual identity. You are always looking for an opportunity to investigate the unknown, to use and show your mental abilities, to find the purpose and meaning of life. You want to grow wise and to understand people and things. You need privacy to replenish your energy. You have a unique way of thinking, intuitive, reflective, absorbing.
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