How popular is the name Bambi?

Bambi ranks 2,044th among girls' names in US records, with 5,244 births since 1943. Over the past decade it accounts for 70.

Is Bambi a unisex name?

No. Bambi is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1979, when 327 children were given the name. It has been in use for 82 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#2,044 of girl names

Pronounced B AE1 M B IY0 (ARPABET)

Bambi is a girls' name, and first appears in 1943. It has been given to 5,244 children — the 2,044th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 70 births across the past decade, against a peak of 327 in a single year. That peak was in 1979.

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Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Bambi?: Bambi ranks 2,044th among girls' names in US records, with 5,244 births since 1943. Over the past decade it accounts for 70.
Is Bambi a unisex name?: No. Bambi is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Bambi most popular?: 1979, when 327 children were given the name. It has been in use for 82 years and is still recorded as of 2024.