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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Sims

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

#11,794

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

6

All-time births

312

2% of them in 2025

More common than

77%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1919
18 births
Best rank
#1,286
in 1900
First recorded
1900
#1,286 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1944
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
45 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 191918#1,869Peak
  2. 192512#2,569
  3. 194612#2,259
  4. 191811#2,680
  5. 194311#2,388

Rank over time

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

Best rank #1,286 in 1900 · peak births 18 in 1919

Boys and girls

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

● 98% boys■ 2% girls

312 boys · 5 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 Sims has ranked, decade by decade

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