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.

Rayfus

#20,739 most common boys' name of all time · #54,577 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1951–1963

Rank among boys
#20,739
Rank overall
#54,577 of 105,966
First appeared
1951
Years on the list
8 of 146
All-time
42
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1952 #3,720
Best rank
#3,720 1952
Girls Boys peak 6/yr
1960

Rayfus first appears in 1951. 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
1963 — 5 5 #4,475
1962 — 5 5 #4,474
1958 — 5 5 #4,381
1956 — 6 6 #3,891
1954 — 5 5 #4,293
1953 — 5 5 #4,282
1952 — 6 6 #3,720
1951 — 5 5 #4,241