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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Smith

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#1,483

up +104 places

2025 births

120

up +11 births

All-time births

5,475

2% of them in 2025

More common than

96%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2016
162 births
Best rank
#326
in 1885
First recorded
1880
#477 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1971
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
145 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 2016162#1,178Peak
  2. 2015156#1,187
  3. 2017154#1,205
  4. 2019149#1,263
  5. 2021142#1,319

Rank over time

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

Best rank #326 in 1885 · peak births 162 in 2016

Boys and girls

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

● 97% boys■ 3% girls

5,475 boys · 189 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 Smith has ranked, decade by decade

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