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.

Buffey

#25,365 most common girls' name of all time · #41,151 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1967–1979

Rank among girls
#25,365
Rank overall
#41,151 of 105,966
First appeared
1967
Years on the list
11 of 146
All-time
96
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1972 #4,061
Best rank
#4,061 1972
Girls Boys peak 15/yr

Buffey first appears in 1967. 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
1979 6 — 6 #9,525
1977 6 — 6 #9,027
1976 8 — 8 #7,007
1975 9 — 9 #6,320
1974 9 — 9 #6,103
1973 12 — 12 #4,810
1972 15 — 15 #4,061
1971 10 — 10 #5,482
1969 5 — 5 #8,346
1968 9 — 9 #5,121
1967 7 — 7 #6,001