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.

Chess

#23,060 most common boys' name of all time · #60,824 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1915–2020

Rank among boys
#23,060
Rank overall
#60,824 of 105,966
First appeared
1915
Years on the list
5 of 146
All-time
29
Since 2016
5
Peak year
1953 #3,051
Best rank
#3,051 1953
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
192019401960198020002020

Chess first appears in 1915. 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
2020 — 5 5 #12,176
1992 — 5 5 #8,619
1953 — 8 8 #3,051
1918 — 6 6 #4,022
1915 — 5 5 #4,169