Masculine dossier · first seen 1888

Buel

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

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1922

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1888Peak 19222024

Peak year

1922

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,135

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

Your name peaked in 1922, when 65 boys were named Buel.

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 1,135 Americans have been named Buel and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1888.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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