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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Early

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

#7,817

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

10

All-time births

3,989

0% of them in 2025

More common than

95%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1927
88 births
Best rank
#323
in 1897
First recorded
1880
#580 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1934
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
128 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 192788#692Peak
  2. 191987#665
  3. 192185#709
  4. 191783#656
  5. 192282#724

Rank over time

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

Best rank #323 in 1897 · peak births 88 in 1927

Boys and girls

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

● 91% boys■ 9% girls

3,989 boys · 373 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 Early has ranked, decade by decade

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