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NAMES LIKE FOSTER
Same rise and fall as Foster, around the same years.
WHERE FOSTER IS POPULAR · 2024
In 2024, Foster ranked highest in South Dakota (#387) and lowest in California (#5,341). 29 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Foster name popularity
Foster has been given to 13,408 babies in the United States since 1880.
It peaked in 2025, when 278 babies got the name, and its best rank was #591 in 1882.
In 2025, 278 babies were named Foster (#1,784 in the country), its biggest year on record. That is up 35% from 2015.
About 2% of babies named Foster were girls and 98% were boys.
An estimated 7.9K people named Foster are alive in the US today, with a median age of 22.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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