Selmer
Recorded for both sexesGreatest Generation2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
759
peak year 1916
More common than
87%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1916
- 43 births
- Best rank
- #707
- in 1899
- First recorded
- 1887
- #903 that year
- Last recorded
- 1950
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1920
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 56 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 191643#981Peak
- 191539#1,034
- 191436#930
- 191836#1,170
- 192233#1,281
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #707 in 1899 · peak births 43 in 1916
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
759 boys · 10 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 Selmer has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.