Masculine dossier · first seen 1880

Wash

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

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1921

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1880Peak 19212024

Peak year

1921

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,196

Wash 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 1921, when 31 boys were named Wash.

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 1,196 Americans have been named Wash and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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