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.

Chares

#17,764 most common boys' name of all time · #46,463 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1939–1975

Rank among boys
#17,764
Rank overall
#46,463 of 105,966
First appeared
1939
Years on the list
11 of 146
All-time
69
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1961 #2,861
Best rank
#2,861 1961
Girls Boys peak 10/yr
19401960

Chares first appears in 1939. 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
1975 — 5 5 #5,791
1969 — 5 5 #4,728
1966 — 5 5 #4,313
1965 — 8 8 #3,184
1961 — 10 10 #2,861
1960 — 7 7 #3,584
1959 — 6 6 #3,899
1950 — 7 7 #3,300
1944 — 5 5 #3,865
1942 — 6 6 #3,547
1939 — 5 5 #3,950