Masculine dossier · first seen 1968

Spenser

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

Endangered Down 97.6% from peak

Peak era

1988

Peak rank proxy

333

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Millennial

1968Peak 19882024

Peak year

1988

Decline from peak

97.6%

2024

All-time

2,985

Spenser 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 1988, when 333 boys were named Spenser.

In 2024, only 8 boys were given the name.

Down 97.6% from its peak.

All told, about 2,985 Americans have been named Spenser and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1968.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationMillennial

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 97.6% from peak

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