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.

Marks

#16,000 most common boys' name of all time · #41,648 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1916–1979

Rank among boys
#16,000
Rank overall
#41,648 of 105,966
First appeared
1916
Years on the list
15 of 146
All-time
93
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1957 #2,751
Best rank
#2,751 1957
Girls Boys peak 10/yr
192019401960

Marks first appears in 1916. 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
1979 — 6 6 #5,533
1973 — 5 5 #5,329
1970 — 6 6 #4,409
1964 — 5 5 #4,277
1957 — 10 10 #2,751
1934 — 6 6 #3,559
1931 — 5 5 #4,113
1930 — 5 5 #4,320
1928 — 7 7 #3,609
1927 — 6 6 #4,071
1925 — 6 6 #4,037
1924 — 8 8 #3,464
1923 — 5 5 #4,629
1921 — 6 6 #4,155
1916 — 7 7 #3,494