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.

Cordis

#18,772 most common boys' name of all time · #49,282 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1916–1946

Rank among boys
#18,772
Rank overall
#49,282 of 105,966
First appeared
1916
Years on the list
10 of 146
All-time
58
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1916 #3,156
Best rank
#3,156 1916
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
19201940

Cordis first appears in 1916. 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
1946 — 5 5 #3,821
1940 — 6 6 #3,379
1931 — 5 5 #4,109
1928 — 7 7 #3,606
1926 — 6 6 #4,037
1921 — 5 5 #4,684
1920 — 5 5 #4,678
1918 — 6 6 #4,046
1917 — 5 5 #4,347
1916 — 8 8 #3,156