Nuru**
#19,378 most common boys' name of all time · #50,837 across all names · 55% male / 45% female · used 1977–2025 · genuinely unisex
Rank among boys
#19,378
Rank overall
#50,837 of 105,966
First appeared
1977
Years on the list
6 of 146
All-time
53
Since 2016
48
Peak year
2022 #11,237
Best rank
#6,805 1977
Girls
Boys
peak 17/yr
Nuru first appears in 1977. 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.