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.

Hurston

#20,068 most common boys' name of all time · #52,780 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1914–1951

Rank among boys
#20,068
Rank overall
#52,780 of 105,966
First appeared
1914
Years on the list
8 of 146
All-time
47
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1922 #3,712
Best rank
#3,200 1914
Girls Boys peak 7/yr
19201940

Hurston first appears in 1914. 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
1951 — 5 5 #3,955
1943 — 5 5 #3,805
1936 — 6 6 #3,390
1931 — 6 6 #3,592
1929 — 5 5 #4,228
1922 — 7 7 #3,712
1918 — 7 7 #3,580
1914 — 6 6 #3,200