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.

Phelps

#18,673 most common boys' name of all time · #48,997 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1918–2014

Rank among boys
#18,673
Rank overall
#48,997 of 105,966
First appeared
1918
Years on the list
11 of 146
All-time
59
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1929 #3,527
Best rank
#3,527 1929
Girls Boys peak 7/yr
19201940196019802000

Phelps first appears in 1918. 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
2014 — 5 5 #12,295
2012 — 5 5 #12,446
1956 — 5 5 #4,214
1949 — 5 5 #4,024
1948 — 6 6 #3,561
1930 — 5 5 #4,378
1929 — 7 7 #3,527
1926 — 5 5 #4,638
1922 — 5 5 #4,732
1920 — 5 5 #4,782
1918 — 6 6 #4,155