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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Choice

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#5,904

up +1,975 places

2025 births

15

up +5 births

All-time births

273

5% of them in 2025

More common than

75%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2025
15 births
Best rank
#1,567
in 1911
First recorded
1910
#1,635 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1965
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
38 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 202515#5,904Peak
  2. 192211#2,658
  3. 192110#2,839
  4. 193210#2,489
  5. 202210#7,863

Rank over time

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

Best rank #1,567 in 1911 · peak births 15 in 2025

Boys and girls

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

● 91% boys■ 9% girls

273 boys · 27 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 Choice has ranked, decade by decade

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