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.

Bub

#19,243 most common boys' name of all time · #50,517 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1900–1959

Rank among boys
#19,243
Rank overall
#50,517 of 105,966
First appeared
1900
Years on the list
10 of 146
All-time
54
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1918 #3,167
Best rank
#1,362 1904
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
190019201940

Bub first appears in 1900. 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
1959 — 5 5 #4,108
1941 — 6 6 #3,239
1937 — 5 5 #3,637
1928 — 5 5 #4,253
1920 — 5 5 #4,399
1919 — 5 5 #4,276
1918 — 8 8 #3,167
1913 — 5 5 #2,945
1904 — 5 5 #1,362
1900 — 5 5 #1,477