General
Recorded for boysSilent Generation2025 rank
—
not recorded in 2025
2025 births
—
All-time births
4,025
peak year 1918
More common than
95%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1918
- 105 births
- Best rank
- #280
- in 1885
- First recorded
- 1880
- #295 that year
- Last recorded
- 2024
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1934
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 142 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1918105#597Peak
- 191999#610
- 192091#668
- 192191#679
- 191781#665
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #280 in 1885 · peak births 105 in 1918
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 General has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.
The girls' series
No girls have been recorded with this name.
Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.