Names / Girl names
Cookie
Current rank
—
outside the top 1,000
All-time peak
#1,859
in 1958
First recorded
1940
in U.S. data
Children named
573
since 1940
Popularity over time
Annual U.S. children given the name · Peak #1,859 in 1958 · Source: Social Security Administration
Meaning & background
Cookie was first recorded in American naming records in 1940, where it reads as a girls' name. These days it lands below the top 1,000, so it still feels distinctive. Only about 573 children have carried it, making it genuinely rare.