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.

Verbal

#32,337 most common girls' name of all time · #52,135 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1914–1922

Rank among girls
#32,337
Rank overall
#52,135 of 105,966
First appeared
1914
Years on the list
8 of 146
All-time
49
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1920 #3,539
Best rank
#3,539 1920
Girls Boys peak 9/yr
1920

Verbal first appears in 1914. 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
1922 5 — 5 #5,341
1921 8 — 8 #3,924
1920 9 — 9 #3,539
1919 5 — 5 #5,139
1918 5 — 5 #5,158
1917 6 — 6 #4,400
1916 6 — 6 #4,238
1914 5 — 5 #4,186