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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Bev

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

998

peak year 1959

More common than

90%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1959
127 births
Best rank
#929
in 1959
First recorded
1940
#4,430 that year
Last recorded
1971
no later published record
Average birth year
1959
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
29 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1959127#929Peak
  2. 1960117#993
  3. 1958111#985
  4. 196198#1,108
  5. 196284#1,204

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #929 in 1959 · peak births 127 in 1959

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

5 boys · 998 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 Bev has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.