Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Acel

#16,953 most common boys' name of all time · #44,298 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1912–2023

Rank among boys
#16,953
Rank overall
#44,298 of 105,966
First appeared
1912
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
79
Since 2016
11
Peak year
1919 #2,783
Best rank
#2,690 1913
Girls Boys peak 10/yr
192019401960198020002020

Acel first appears in 1912. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
2023 — 6 6 #10,912
2019 — 5 5 #12,253
1943 — 5 5 #3,724
1930 — 5 5 #4,165
1925 — 8 8 #3,265
1924 — 5 5 #4,514
1922 — 9 9 #3,134
1919 — 10 10 #2,783
1918 — 7 7 #3,502
1915 — 8 8 #2,951
1913 — 6 6 #2,690
1912 — 5 5 #2,718