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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Monroe

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

#1,262

up +18 places

2025 births

157

up +3 births

All-time births

17,094

1% of them in 2025

More common than

98%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1921
375 births
Best rank
#179
in 1882
First recorded
1880
#224 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1944
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 1921375#290Peak
  2. 1918362#283
  3. 1920359#300
  4. 1922354#304
  5. 1919339#293

Rank over time

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

Best rank #179 in 1882 · peak births 375 in 1921

Boys and girls

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

● 70% boys■ 30% girls

17,094 boys · 7,266 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 Monroe has ranked, decade by decade

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