Masculine dossier · first seen 1880

Buster

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

Endangered Down 94.7% from peak

Peak era

1918

Peak rank proxy

246

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Greatest Generation

1880Peak 19182024

Peak year

1918

Decline from peak

94.7%

2024

All-time

8,161

Buster 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 1918, when 246 boys were named Buster.

In 2024, only 13 boys were given the name.

Down 94.7% from its peak.

All told, about 8,161 Americans have been named Buster and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 94.7% from peak

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