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.

Gilroy

#22,492 most common boys' name of all time · #59,252 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1940–1991

Rank among boys
#22,492
Rank overall
#59,252 of 105,966
First appeared
1940
Years on the list
6 of 146
All-time
32
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1991 #7,519
Best rank
#3,836 1967
Girls Boys peak 6/yr
194019601980

Gilroy first appears in 1940. 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
1991 — 6 6 #7,519
1988 — 5 5 #7,581
1986 — 5 5 #7,076
1967 — 6 6 #3,836
1955 — 5 5 #4,288
1940 — 5 5 #3,918