Masculine dossier · first seen 1919

Baby

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

Endangered Down 98.4% from peak

Peak era

1994

Peak rank proxy

373

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Millennial

1919Peak 19942024

Peak year

1994

Decline from peak

98.4%

2024

All-time

6,325

Baby once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1994, when 373 boys were named Baby.

In 2024, only 6 boys were given the name.

Down 98.4% from its peak.

All told, about 6,325 Americans have been named Baby and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1919.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationMillennial

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 98.4% from peak

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