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.

Calamity

#42,514 most common girls' name of all time · #68,397 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1956–1957

Rank among girls
#42,514
Rank overall
#68,397 of 105,966
First appeared
1956
Years on the list
2 of 146
All-time
19
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1956 #3,906
Best rank
#3,906 1956
Girls Boys peak 11/yr

Calamity first appears in 1956. 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
1957 8 8 #4,889
1956 11 11 #3,906