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.

Bossie

#19,689 most common boys' name of all time · #51,798 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1913–1944

Rank among boys
#19,689
Rank overall
#51,798 of 105,966
First appeared
1913
Years on the list
9 of 146
All-time
50
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1919 #3,270
Best rank
#2,720 1913
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
19201940

Bossie first appears in 1913. 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
1944 — 5 5 #3,619
1929 — 5 5 #4,165
1926 — 5 5 #4,399
1921 — 5 5 #4,491
1920 — 5 5 #4,496
1919 — 8 8 #3,270
1917 — 6 6 #3,716
1916 — 5 5 #4,120
1913 — 6 6 #2,720