Basil
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#2,022
down −7 places
2025 births
74
down −2 births
All-time births
13,172
1% of them in 2025
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1924
- 281 births
- Best rank
- #322
- in 1897
- First recorded
- 1880
- #572 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1949
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 1924281#354Peak
- 1921266#374
- 1919262#352
- 1925259#370
- 1927249#371
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #322 in 1897 · peak births 281 in 1924
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 97% boys■ 3% girls
13,172 boys · 366 girls, all time
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 Basil has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.