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.

Schafer

#18,247 most common boys' name of all time · #47,677 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1992–2021

Rank among boys
#18,247
Rank overall
#47,677 of 105,966
First appeared
1992
Years on the list
10 of 146
All-time
64
Since 2016
22
Peak year
2008 #8,739
Best rank
#8,188 2002
Girls Boys peak 9/yr
20002020

Schafer first appears in 1992. 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
2021 — 8 8 #9,229
2017 — 7 7 #10,180
2016 — 7 7 #10,142
2010 — 5 5 #13,121
2008 — 9 9 #8,739
2007 — 5 5 #13,231
2002 — 8 8 #8,188
1999 — 5 5 #10,905
1994 — 5 5 #9,860
1992 — 5 5 #9,768