# Spike (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/spike/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 128 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 128 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 491, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 10 | 2,794 |
| 1960 | 6 | 3,997 |
| 1961 | 5 | 4,582 |
| 1965 | 8 | 3,217 |
| 1973 | 5 | 5,782 |
| 1987 | 5 | 7,986 |
| 1997 | 7 | 7,998 |
| 2004 | 5 | 12,964 |
| 2007 | 5 | 14,098 |
| 2008 | 6 | 12,345 |
| 2011 | 5 | 14,055 |
| 2012 | 5 | 13,935 |
| 2019 | 7 | 10,652 |
| 2020 | 5 | 13,776 |
| 2021 | 5 | 13,813 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 31 | 918 |
| 2011 | 13 | 1,688 |
| 2012 | 19 | 1,313 |
| 2013 | 18 | 1,339 |
| 2014 | 20 | 1,281 |
| 2015 | 14 | 1,673 |
| 2016 | 14 | 1,704 |
| 2017 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2019 | 13 | 1,745 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4,608 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,451 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,048 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3,112 |
| 2024 | 7 | 2,921 |

## People named Spike

- Spike Lee, American filmmaker (born 1957)
- Spike Jones, American musician and band leader (1911-1965)
- Spike Edney, English keyboard player
- Spike Cohen, 2020 Libertarian Party vice presidential nominee
- Spike Spencer, American actor
- Spike Fearn, English actor

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.