Meaning & origin
What it means
Worth goes back to Old English worþ, meaning “enclosure.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Worth through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,204
- 2,204 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 67 babies
- 2025
- 13
- #6,784 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +79%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 13 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,784 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 78.7% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 67 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 711 as a first name in 2020; 7,497 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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