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.

Forster

#21,366 most common boys' name of all time · #56,298 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1920–1947

Rank among boys
#21,366
Rank overall
#56,298 of 105,966
First appeared
1920
Years on the list
7 of 146
All-time
38
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1938 #3,147
Best rank
#3,147 1938
Girls Boys peak 7/yr
19201940

Forster first appears in 1920. 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
1947 — 5 5 #4,134
1945 — 6 6 #3,271
1941 — 5 5 #3,912
1938 — 7 7 #3,147
1936 — 5 5 #3,950
1923 — 5 5 #4,768
1920 — 5 5 #4,885