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.

Welch

#19,582 most common boys' name of all time · #51,481 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1914–1929

Rank among boys
#19,582
Rank overall
#51,481 of 105,966
First appeared
1914
Years on the list
8 of 146
All-time
51
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1919 #2,826
Best rank
#2,826 1919
Girls Boys peak 10/yr
1920

Welch 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
1929 — 7 7 #3,436
1927 — 5 5 #4,435
1925 — 6 6 #3,949
1921 — 5 5 #4,552
1919 — 10 10 #2,826
1917 — 5 5 #4,234
1916 — 6 6 #3,722
1914 — 7 7 #2,912