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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Ross

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#1,465

down −104 places

2025 births

122

down −17 births

All-time births

81,872

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1985
1,884 births
Best rank
#122
in 1889
First recorded
1880
#185 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1965
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 19851,884#147Peak
  2. 19891,787#168
  3. 19861,775#152
  4. 19881,768#158
  5. 19841,744#155

Rank over time

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

Best rank #122 in 1889 · peak births 1,884 in 1985

Boys and girls

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

● 99% boys■ 1% girls

81,872 boys · 421 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 Ross has ranked, decade by decade

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