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.

Demosthenes

#18,303 most common boys' name of all time · #47,939 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1914–2007

Rank among boys
#18,303
Rank overall
#47,939 of 105,966
First appeared
1914
Years on the list
11 of 146
All-time
63
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1923 #3,359
Best rank
#3,292 1931
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
19201940196019802000

Demosthenes first appears in 1914. 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
2007 — 6 6 #11,025
1989 — 5 5 #8,084
1981 — 6 6 #5,632
1972 — 5 5 #5,183
1940 — 5 5 #3,707
1931 — 7 7 #3,292
1929 — 6 6 #3,776
1924 — 5 5 #4,600
1923 — 8 8 #3,359
1916 — 5 5 #4,204
1914 — 5 5 #3,569