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.

Falana

#22,791 most common girls' name of all time · #37,132 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1970–1986

Rank among girls
#22,791
Rank overall
#37,132 of 105,966
First appeared
1970
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
124
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1976 #2,656
Best rank
#2,656 1976
Girls Boys peak 30/yr
1980

Falana first appears in 1970. 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
1986 5 — 5 #11,661
1985 5 — 5 #11,405
1981 8 — 8 #7,835
1979 9 — 9 #7,085
1978 19 — 19 #3,894
1977 15 — 15 #4,601
1976 30 — 30 #2,656
1975 7 — 7 #7,739
1973 8 — 8 #6,531
1972 5 — 5 #9,192
1971 6 — 6 #8,131
1970 7 — 7 #6,995