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.

Hedrick

#21,022 most common boys' name of all time · #55,375 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1917–1958

Rank among boys
#21,022
Rank overall
#55,375 of 105,966
First appeared
1917
Years on the list
7 of 146
All-time
40
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1921 #3,807
Best rank
#3,471 1943
Girls Boys peak 7/yr
19201940

Hedrick 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 — 5 5 #4,220
1946 — 5 5 #3,846
1943 — 6 6 #3,471
1929 — 6 6 #3,856
1926 — 5 5 #4,595
1921 — 7 7 #3,807
1917 — 6 6 #3,925