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.

Choya*

#16,244 most common boys' name of all time · #42,375 across all names · 82% male / 18% female · used 1951–1983 · notable crossover

Rank among boys
#16,244
Rank overall
#42,375 of 105,966
First appeared
1951
Years on the list
15 of 146
All-time
89
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1979 #3,702
Best rank
#2,842 1951
Girls Boys peak 11/yr
19601980

Choya first appears in 1951. 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
1983 5 — 5 —
1982 5 — 5 —
1981 6 — 6 —
1980 — 6 6 #5,827
1979 — 11 11 #3,702
1976 — 5 5 #5,958
1975 — 5 5 #5,827
1973 — 6 6 #4,812
1972 — 5 5 #5,361
1970 — 5 5 #5,135
1956 — 5 5 #4,355
1954 — 5 5 #4,287
1953 — 5 5 #4,277
1952 — 6 6 #3,714
1951 — 9 9 #2,842