Meaning and history
Bambi is derived from the Italian bambina, meaning “young girl.” The American novelist Marjorie Benton Cooke used the name in her 1914 novel Bambi, and it was later given to a male deer in a Walt Disney cartoon based on Felix Salten’s 1923 Swiss novel.
20062006: no US SSA record for this spelling
2007: no US SSA record for this spelling
2008: 7 births, rank #13,832
2009: no US SSA record for this spelling
2010: no US SSA record for this spelling
20112011: no US SSA record for this spelling
2012: 6 births, rank #14,962
2013: 6 births, rank #14,582
2014: 5 births, rank #16,513
2015: no US SSA record for this spelling
20162016: 5 births, rank #16,215
2017: 7 births, rank #12,713
2018: 6 births, rank #13,793
2019: 9 births, rank #10,473
2020: no US SSA record for this spelling
20212021: 12 births, rank #8,464
2022: 8 births, rank #11,231
2023: 14 births, rank #7,640
2024: 9 births, rank #10,271
20252025: 17 births, rank #6,546
Bambi moved from #795 to #934 for girls between 1981 and 1982. Its highest annual birth count came in 1979, with 327 births.