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.

Nesbit**

#16,872 most common boys' name of all time · #44,079 across all names · 78% male / 23% female · used 1914–1951 · genuinely unisex

Rank among boys
#16,872
Rank overall
#44,079 of 105,966
First appeared
1914
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
80
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1916 #3,702
Best rank
#3,267 1931
Girls Boys peak 11/yr
19201940

Nesbit 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 #3,940
1942 — 5 5 #3,786
1932 — 5 5 #4,006
1931 — 7 7 #3,267
1928 — 7 7 #3,533
1924 — 7 7 #3,689
1921 — 8 8 #3,386
1920 — 5 5 #4,525
1919 — 7 7 #3,590
1916 5 6 11 #3,702
1915 7 — 7 —
1914 6 — 6 —