Masculine dossier · first seen 1888

Cephus

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Cephus
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

1,009

Cephus 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 30 boys were named Cephus.

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 1,009 Americans have been named Cephus and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1888.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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