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.

Fairley

#14,453 most common boys' name of all time · #37,387 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1926–1965

Rank among boys
#14,453
Rank overall
#37,387 of 105,966
First appeared
1926
Years on the list
14 of 146
All-time
122
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1944 #1,806
Best rank
#1,806 1944
Girls Boys peak 16/yr
19401960

Fairley first appears in 1926. 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
1965 — 5 5 #4,220
1949 — 12 12 #2,324
1947 — 8 8 #3,071
1946 — 13 13 #2,132
1945 — 10 10 #2,382
1944 — 16 16 #1,806
1943 — 12 12 #2,275
1942 — 13 13 #2,139
1941 — 5 5 #3,948
1940 — 7 7 #3,113
1938 — 5 5 #3,979
1933 — 5 5 #4,107
1929 — 6 6 #3,930
1926 — 5 5 #4,782