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.

Thorwald

#19,242 most common boys' name of all time · #50,517 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1893–1928

Rank among boys
#19,242
Rank overall
#50,517 of 105,966
First appeared
1893
Years on the list
8 of 146
All-time
54
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1923 #2,822
Best rank
#835 1893
Girls Boys peak 10/yr
19001920

Thorwald first appears in 1893. 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
1928 — 7 7 #3,421
1926 — 7 7 #3,433
1923 — 10 10 #2,822
1920 — 7 7 #3,546
1919 — 5 5 #4,256
1916 — 5 5 #3,994
1915 — 5 5 #3,905
1893 — 8 8 #835