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.

Forman

#23,790 most common boys' name of all time · #62,785 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1917–1958

Rank among boys
#23,790
Rank overall
#62,785 of 105,966
First appeared
1917
Years on the list
5 of 146
All-time
26
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1958 #3,790
Best rank
#3,790 1958
Girls Boys peak 6/yr
19201940

Forman first appears in 1917. 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
1958 — 6 6 #3,790
1934 — 5 5 #4,044
1922 — 5 5 #4,705
1920 — 5 5 #4,745
1917 — 5 5 #4,472