Major
Recorded for both sexesMillennial2025 rank
#670
down −88 places
2025 births
407
down −84 births
All-time births
21,673
2% of them in 2025
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2017
- 1,042 births
- Best rank
- #247
- in 1889
- First recorded
- 1880
- #324 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1984
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 20171,042#331Peak
- 2016990#348
- 2019948#351
- 2018944#350
- 2014934#350
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #247 in 1889 · peak births 1,042 in 2017
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 100% boys■ 0% girls
21,673 boys · 76 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 Major has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.