Novel**
#16,356 most common boys' name of all time · #42,725 across all names · 61% male / 39% female · used 1916–2024 · genuinely unisex
Rank among boys
#16,356
Rank overall
#42,725 of 105,966
First appeared
1916
Years on the list
15 of 146
All-time
87
Since 2016
11
Peak year
1924 #3,458
Best rank
#3,263 1951
Girls
Boys
peak 8/yr
Novel 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.