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.

Lankford

#18,483 most common boys' name of all time · #48,447 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1914–1946

Rank among boys
#18,483
Rank overall
#48,447 of 105,966
First appeared
1914
Years on the list
11 of 146
All-time
61
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1921 #4,081
Best rank
#3,306 1944
Girls Boys peak 6/yr
19201940

Lankford 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
1946 — 6 6 #3,387
1944 — 6 6 #3,306
1941 — 5 5 #3,792
1931 — 6 6 #3,605
1924 — 5 5 #4,609
1923 — 6 6 #4,044
1922 — 6 6 #4,084
1921 — 6 6 #4,081
1917 — 5 5 #4,268
1916 — 5 5 #4,216
1914 — 5 5 #3,647