Masculine dossier · first seen 1880

Author

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Author
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1933

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Silent Generation

1880Peak 19332024

Peak year

1933

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

2,173

Author has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Silent Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1933, when 59 boys were named Author.

No boys were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 2,173 Americans have been named Author and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationSilent Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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