Masculine dossier · first seen 1880

Unknown

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

Endangered Down 93.1% from peak

Peak era

1954

Peak rank proxy

549

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Boomer

1880Peak 19542024

Peak year

1954

Decline from peak

93.1%

2024

All-time

9,827

Unknown 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 1954, when 549 boys were named Unknown.

In 2024, only 38 boys were given the name.

Down 93.1% from its peak.

All told, about 9,827 Americans have been named Unknown and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 93.1% from peak

1954549 boys named Unknown

202438 boys named Unknown

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