Masculine dossier · first seen 1881

Curley

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

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1944

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Silent Generation

1881Peak 19442024

Peak year

1944

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

2,590

Curley 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 1944, when 68 boys were named Curley.

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 2,590 Americans have been named Curley and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1881.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationSilent Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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