Bascom
Recorded for boysGreatest Generation2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
731
peak year 1916
More common than
86%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1916
- 28 births
- Best rank
- #505
- in 1884
- First recorded
- 1882
- #851 that year
- Last recorded
- 1970
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1924
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 62 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 191628#1,266Peak
- 191724#1,446
- 192224#1,551
- 191823#1,543
- 192423#1,632
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #505 in 1884 · peak births 28 in 1916
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Bascom has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.
The girls' series
No girls have been recorded with this name.
Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.