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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

San

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#11,755

up +5,506 places

2025 births

8

up +3 births

All-time births

1,876

0% of them in 2025

More common than

93%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1950
66 births
Best rank
#1,142
in 1950
First recorded
1911
#2,164 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1964
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
87 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 195066#1,142Peak
  2. 196955#1,628
  3. 197155#1,679
  4. 195152#1,299
  5. 196851#1,621

Rank over time

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

Best rank #1,142 in 1950 · peak births 66 in 1950

Boys and girls

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

● 25% boys■ 75% girls

626 boys · 1,876 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 San has ranked, decade by decade

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