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.

Horrace

#17,447 most common boys' name of all time · #45,585 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1915–1952

Rank among boys
#17,447
Rank overall
#45,585 of 105,966
First appeared
1915
Years on the list
11 of 146
All-time
73
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1918 #3,069
Best rank
#2,906 1935
Girls Boys peak 9/yr
19201940

Horrace 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
1952 — 6 6 #3,562
1937 — 5 5 #3,820
1935 — 8 8 #2,906
1928 — 5 5 #4,464
1927 — 8 8 #3,366
1926 — 5 5 #4,512
1924 — 7 7 #3,752
1923 — 6 6 #4,082
1918 — 9 9 #3,069
1916 — 8 8 #3,142
1915 — 6 6 #3,746