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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Pearson

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#3,639

down −854 places

2025 births

31

down −16 births

All-time births

1,552

2% of them in 2025

More common than

92%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2019
58 births
Best rank
#1,261
in 1898
First recorded
1898
#1,261 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1997
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
79 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 201958#2,355Peak
  2. 201755#2,376
  3. 200852#2,455
  4. 201651#2,508
  5. 201549#2,557

Rank over time

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

Best rank #1,261 in 1898 · peak births 58 in 2019

Boys and girls

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

● 92% boys■ 8% girls

1,552 boys · 126 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 Pearson has ranked, decade by decade

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