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.

Dent

#17,609 most common boys' name of all time · #46,024 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1918–1979

Rank among boys
#17,609
Rank overall
#46,024 of 105,966
First appeared
1918
Years on the list
11 of 146
All-time
71
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1922 #3,236
Best rank
#3,235 1960
Girls Boys peak 9/yr
192019401960

Dent first appears in 1918. 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
1979 — 6 6 #5,555
1964 — 5 5 #4,309
1960 — 8 8 #3,235
1951 — 7 7 #3,287
1938 — 5 5 #3,905
1934 — 6 6 #3,594
1929 — 5 5 #4,389
1928 — 8 8 #3,318
1926 — 5 5 #4,630
1922 — 9 9 #3,236
1918 — 7 7 #3,702