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.

Challen*

#17,215 most common boys' name of all time · #44,908 across all names · 93% male / 7% female · used 1990–2009 · notable crossover

Rank among boys
#17,215
Rank overall
#44,908 of 105,966
First appeared
1990
Years on the list
10 of 146
All-time
76
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1994 #6,295
Best rank
#5,218 1992
Girls Boys peak 14/yr
2000

Challen first appears in 1990. 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
2009 — 7 7 #10,384
2004 — 5 5 #12,188
2001 — 5 5 #11,404
1999 — 7 7 #8,393
1998 — 5 5 #10,554
1994 5 9 14 #6,295
1993 — 10 10 #5,732
1992 — 11 11 #5,218
1991 — 6 6 #8,067
1990 — 6 6 #7,982