Shale**
#17,129 most common boys' name of all time · #44,716 across all names · 73% male / 27% female · used 1972–2007 · genuinely unisex
Rank among boys
#17,129
Rank overall
#44,716 of 105,966
First appeared
1972
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
77
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1996 #9,468
Best rank
#3,962 1972
Girls
Boys
peak 11/yr
Shale first appears in 1972. 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.