Watson
Recorded for both sexesMillennial2025 rank
#1,011
down −143 places
2025 births
224
down −55 births
All-time births
6,699
3% of them in 2025
More common than
97%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2021
- 466 births
- Best rank
- #397
- in 1882
- First recorded
- 1880
- #566 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1982
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 145 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 2021466#597Peak
- 2020454#603
- 2019362#697
- 2022356#729
- 2018340#715
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #397 in 1882 · peak births 466 in 2021
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 100% boys■ 0% girls
6,699 boys · 22 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 Watson has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.