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.

Deforrest

#16,169 most common boys' name of all time · #42,192 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1916–1994

Rank among boys
#16,169
Rank overall
#42,192 of 105,966
First appeared
1916
Years on the list
15 of 146
All-time
90
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1917 #2,727
Best rank
#2,727 1917
Girls Boys peak 10/yr
1920194019601980

Deforrest 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
1994 — 5 5 #8,966
1990 — 5 5 #8,354
1983 — 5 5 #6,463
1963 — 6 6 #3,850
1954 — 5 5 #4,098
1942 — 5 5 #3,876
1936 — 6 6 #3,447
1927 — 6 6 #4,068
1925 — 5 5 #4,583
1924 — 6 6 #4,175
1920 — 5 5 #4,680
1919 — 5 5 #4,525
1918 — 9 9 #3,075
1917 — 10 10 #2,727
1916 — 7 7 #3,468