Masculine dossier · first seen 1915

Pershing

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

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1918

Peak rank proxy

295

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1915Peak 19182024

Peak year

1918

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

599

Pershing 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 1918, when 295 boys were named Pershing.

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 599 Americans have been named Pershing and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1915.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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