Ward
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
#2,877
up +452 places
2025 births
44
up +8 births
All-time births
15,026
0% of them in 2025
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1961
- 341 births
- Best rank
- #243
- in 1899
- First recorded
- 1880
- #313 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1944
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 1961341#432Peak
- 1922323#320
- 1920286#347
- 1960283#472
- 1963282#472
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #243 in 1899 · peak births 341 in 1961
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
15,026 boys · 98 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 Ward has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.