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.

Tary**

#16,363 most common boys' name of all time · #42,725 across all names · 66% male / 34% female · used 1946–1984 · genuinely unisex

Rank among boys
#16,363
Rank overall
#42,725 of 105,966
First appeared
1946
Years on the list
14 of 146
All-time
87
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1962 #3,921
Best rank
#3,600 1960
Girls Boys peak 13/yr
19601980

Tary first appears in 1946. 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
1984 5 — 5 —
1971 — 5 5 #5,284
1970 5 — 5 —
1969 — 6 6 #4,238
1966 — 5 5 #4,334
1962 7 6 13 #3,921
1960 — 7 7 #3,600
1959 6 — 6 —
1957 7 — 7 —
1956 — 6 6 #3,857
1954 — 6 6 #3,765
1953 — 5 5 #4,252
1949 — 6 6 #3,665
1946 — 5 5 #4,013