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.

Curties

#18,396 most common boys' name of all time · #48,204 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1915–1962

Rank among boys
#18,396
Rank overall
#48,204 of 105,966
First appeared
1915
Years on the list
11 of 146
All-time
62
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1929 #3,486
Best rank
#3,486 1929
Girls Boys peak 7/yr
192019401960

Curties 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
1962 — 5 5 #4,289
1956 — 6 6 #3,732
1949 — 6 6 #3,536
1940 — 5 5 #3,744
1931 — 5 5 #4,098
1930 — 7 7 #3,496
1929 — 7 7 #3,486
1928 — 6 6 #3,978
1926 — 5 5 #4,530
1923 — 5 5 #4,598
1915 — 5 5 #4,182