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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Dare

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

65

peak year 1921

More common than

56%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1921
7 births
Best rank
#4,114
in 1921
First recorded
1916
#4,577 that year
Last recorded
1979
no later published record
Average birth year
1941
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
12 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19217#4,114Peak
  2. 19537#4,672
  3. 19266#4,421
  4. 19165#4,577
  5. 19185#4,993

Rank over time

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

Best rank #4,114 in 1921 · peak births 7 in 1921

Boys and girls

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

● 49% boys■ 51% girls

63 boys · 65 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 Dare has ranked, decade by decade

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