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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Swan

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

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not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

124

peak year 1925

More common than

65%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1925
11 births
Best rank
#1,099
in 1889
First recorded
1889
#1,099 that year
Last recorded
2014
no later published record
Average birth year
1934
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
19 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 192511#2,732Peak
  2. 192010#2,939
  3. 19279#3,120
  4. 19218#3,477
  5. 19318#3,072

Rank over time

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

Best rank #1,099 in 1889 · peak births 11 in 1925

Boys and girls

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

● 61% boys■ 39% girls

124 boys · 78 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 Swan has ranked, decade by decade

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