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.

Gurdon

#19,249 most common boys' name of all time · #50,517 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1915–1946

Rank among boys
#19,249
Rank overall
#50,517 of 105,966
First appeared
1915
Years on the list
9 of 146
All-time
54
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1918 #3,301
Best rank
#3,073 1936
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
19201940

Gurdon first appears in 1915. 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
1946 — 5 5 #3,804
1936 — 7 7 #3,073
1929 — 5 5 #4,282
1923 — 7 7 #3,713
1921 — 6 6 #4,123
1920 — 5 5 #4,624
1919 — 5 5 #4,476
1918 — 8 8 #3,301
1915 — 6 6 #3,737