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.

Searle

#23,065 most common boys' name of all time · #60,824 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1916–1929

Rank among boys
#23,065
Rank overall
#60,824 of 105,966
First appeared
1916
Years on the list
5 of 146
All-time
29
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1925 #3,367
Best rank
#3,367 1925
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
1920

Searle 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.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1929 — 5 5 #4,352
1926 — 5 5 #4,581
1925 — 8 8 #3,367
1919 — 6 6 #4,067
1916 — 5 5 #4,494