Gary
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#1,073
up +60 places
2025 births
201
up +14 births
All-time births
902,152
0% of them in 2025
More common than
100%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1952
- 38,754 births
- Best rank
- #9
- in 1954
- First recorded
- 1880
- #857 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1957
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 144 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 195238,754#10Peak
- 195138,160#10
- 195437,920#9
- 195336,967#10
- 195534,433#12
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #9 in 1954 · peak births 38,754 in 1952
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 100% boys■ 0% girls
902,152 boys · 3,286 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 Gary has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.