How Many People Are Named Bambi?
people named Bambi are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 72,258 people in the US has this name
Based on 5,261 babies named Bambi in Social Security records from 1943 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
327 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Derived from Italian bambina meaning "young girl". The American novelist Marjorie Benton Cooke used it in her novel 'Bambi' (1914). This was also the name of a male deer in a cartoon by Walt Disney, which was based on a 1923 novel by Swiss author Felix Salten.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Bambi in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Bambi alive today is about 54 years old, and 56% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 45 and 65 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Bambi first appears in the records in 1943 and was given most often in 1979, to 327 babies. In 2025, 17 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1943 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Bambi has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #562, in 1979. In 2025 it ranked #6,580.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #6,580 |
| Best rank | #562 (1979) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #957 in the 1970s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Bambi alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Bambi were born in California than in any other state: about 429 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Bambi was given 2.1 times as often in Louisiana, 1.7 times in Ohio and 1.5 times in California.
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