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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Buff

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

47

peak year 1955

More common than

50%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1955
15 births
Best rank
#2,988
in 1955
First recorded
1952
#5,642 that year
Last recorded
1959
no later published record
Average birth year
1955
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
6 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 195515#2,988Peak
  2. 195410#3,743
  3. 19536#5,102
  4. 19566#5,371
  5. 19525#5,642

Rank over time

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

Best rank #2,988 in 1955 · peak births 15 in 1955

Boys and girls

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

● 40% boys■ 60% girls

31 boys · 47 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 Buff has ranked, decade by decade

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