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.

Dunbar

#17,186 most common boys' name of all time · #44,908 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1914–1949

Rank among boys
#17,186
Rank overall
#44,908 of 105,966
First appeared
1914
Years on the list
14 of 146
All-time
76
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1920 #4,029
Best rank
#3,176 1914
Girls Boys peak 6/yr
19201940

Dunbar 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
1949 — 5 5 #3,928
1940 — 5 5 #3,696
1939 — 5 5 #3,739
1931 — 6 6 #3,590
1927 — 6 6 #4,004
1926 — 6 6 #3,950
1923 — 5 5 #4,504
1922 — 5 5 #4,536
1920 — 6 6 #4,029
1918 — 6 6 #3,949
1917 — 5 5 #4,238
1916 — 5 5 #4,190
1915 — 5 5 #4,092
1914 — 6 6 #3,176