Passion
Feminine · “suffering”
Passion is an English word used as a name, and the word did not originally mean desire at all — it meant suffering.
How old is the name Passion?
Passion first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Passion alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 2,400 people named Passion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Passion most popular?
Passion peaked in 1992, reaching #1740 nationally. Today it ranks #4546, 2,806 places below that high. See the whole 1992 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Passion
Ours, offered as ours. Pati, to undergo, gives passion, patient, passive and compassion — a whole family about things being done to you rather than by you. A patient is someone undergoing treatment; a passive verb has the action done to it; compassion is undergoing something alongside another person. Passion moved from that to strong feeling to desire, which is a long journey for one word, and the older sense survives only in church.
Meaning
suffering; strong feeling
From Latin passio, suffering, from pati, to endure or undergo; the Passion of Christ uses the original sense. The meaning shifted through strong emotion generally to desire only in the modern period. Patient and passive share the root.
Pronouncing Passion
PASH-un
Two syllables, first stressed. There is no variation in English.
Nicknames for Passion
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1974
- Most girls named
- 199285 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1740reached in 1992
- Change vs 2024
- −3.2%30 in 2025, from 31
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Passion in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Passion in French — same name
- Pasión in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: North Carolina, Georgia, Florida.
Passions among us
people named Passion are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 53,576 born in 2025 was named Passion
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Camella test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Passion's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Camella climbed just as high around 1914, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Camella's path sketches the road Passion is walking now.
Passion sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Passion is headed
Passion should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Passion beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Passion in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a genuinely surprising history of reversal.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Seven letters and two syllables, manageable to write.
- The modern sense of the word is strongly about desire.
- It is an ordinary English noun and will be read as a statement about her.
- A word name of this kind invites comment throughout life.
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Feminine · #4546 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Passions are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,400 people named Passion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Passion in 2025?
- Passion ranks #4546 among US girl names in 2025, with 30 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Passion?
- About 1 in every 53,576 US girls born in 2025 was named Passion — 30 in all.
- Will my child share the name Passion with classmates?
- Passion will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Passion
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