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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

York

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

955

peak year 1971

More common than

88%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1971
21 births
Best rank
#780
in 1881
First recorded
1880
#1,057 that year
Last recorded
2024
no later published record
Average birth year
1964
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
104 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 197121#2,051Peak
  2. 196318#1,956
  3. 191816#2,072
  4. 196116#2,145
  5. 196516#2,082

Rank over time

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

Best rank #780 in 1881 · peak births 21 in 1971

Boys and girls

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

● 99% boys■ 1% girls

955 boys · 11 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 York has ranked, decade by decade

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