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.

Birney

#17,515 most common boys' name of all time · #45,806 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1912–1954

Rank among boys
#17,515
Rank overall
#45,806 of 105,966
First appeared
1912
Years on the list
13 of 146
All-time
72
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1921 #4,000
Best rank
#2,740 1912
Girls Boys peak 6/yr
19201940

Birney 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
1954 — 5 5 #3,995
1948 — 5 5 #3,861
1947 — 6 6 #3,529
1944 — 6 6 #3,260
1943 — 5 5 #3,729
1940 — 6 6 #3,288
1930 — 6 6 #3,751
1928 — 5 5 #4,323
1926 — 6 6 #3,874
1924 — 6 6 #4,011
1921 — 6 6 #4,000
1914 — 5 5 #3,454
1912 — 5 5 #2,740