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.

Smitty

#16,171 most common boys' name of all time · #42,192 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1934–1970

Rank among boys
#16,171
Rank overall
#42,192 of 105,966
First appeared
1934
Years on the list
13 of 146
All-time
90
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1950 #2,106
Best rank
#2,106 1950
Girls Boys peak 14/yr
19401960

Smitty first appears in 1934. 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
1970 — 5 5 #5,086
1966 — 6 6 #3,793
1961 — 6 6 #3,929
1956 — 8 8 #3,166
1955 — 6 6 #3,802
1954 — 6 6 #3,743
1953 — 7 7 #3,372
1952 — 5 5 #4,151
1950 — 14 14 #2,106
1947 — 10 10 #2,662
1945 — 6 6 #3,308
1940 — 5 5 #3,894
1934 — 6 6 #3,676