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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Buford

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

#10,884

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

6

All-time births

10,854

0% of them in 2025

More common than

97%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1921
334 births
Best rank
#311
in 1910
First recorded
1880
#575 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1935
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
125 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1921334#318Peak
  2. 1922305#335
  3. 1924304#334
  4. 1925283#347
  5. 1923279#352

Rank over time

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

Best rank #311 in 1910 · peak births 334 in 1921

Boys and girls

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

● 99% boys■ 1% girls

10,854 boys · 110 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 Buford has ranked, decade by decade

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