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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Curly

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

230

peak year 1957

More common than

73%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1957
11 births
Best rank
#2,517
in 1957
First recorded
1913
#2,559 that year
Last recorded
1977
no later published record
Average birth year
1940
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
34 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 195711#2,517Peak
  2. 19239#2,992
  3. 19249#3,073
  4. 19339#2,584
  5. 19379#2,524

Rank over time

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

Best rank #2,517 in 1957 · peak births 11 in 1957

Boys and girls

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

● 97% boys■ 3% girls

230 boys · 6 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 Curly has ranked, decade by decade

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