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.

Verdun*

#16,236 most common boys' name of all time · #42,375 across all names · 91% male / 9% female · used 1916–1922 · notable crossover

Rank among boys
#16,236
Rank overall
#42,375 of 105,966
First appeared
1916
Years on the list
6 of 146
All-time
89
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1918 #1,498
Best rank
#1,498 1918
Girls Boys peak 33/yr
1920

Verdun first appears in 1916. 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 #4,629
1920 — 9 9 #3,182
1919 — 16 16 #2,062
1918 8 25 33 #1,498
1917 — 12 12 #2,421
1916 — 14 14 #2,151