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.

Northern

#20,361 most common boys' name of all time · #53,511 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1921–1955

Rank among boys
#20,361
Rank overall
#53,511 of 105,966
First appeared
1921
Years on the list
8 of 146
All-time
45
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1921 #3,515
Best rank
#3,515 1921
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
1940

Northern first appears in 1921. 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
1955 — 5 5 #4,218
1948 — 5 5 #4,061
1944 — 5 5 #3,803
1934 — 5 5 #4,101
1932 — 6 6 #3,727
1923 — 5 5 #4,778
1922 — 6 6 #4,260
1921 — 8 8 #3,515