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.

Wharton

#21,362 most common boys' name of all time · #56,298 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1917–1939

Rank among boys
#21,362
Rank overall
#56,298 of 105,966
First appeared
1917
Years on the list
7 of 146
All-time
38
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1923 #3,765
Best rank
#3,465 1938
Girls Boys peak 7/yr
1920

Wharton first appears in 1917. 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
1939 — 5 5 #3,832
1938 — 6 6 #3,465
1931 — 5 5 #4,168
1926 — 5 5 #4,625
1923 — 7 7 #3,765
1920 — 5 5 #4,763
1917 — 5 5 #4,598