Governor Popularity by Year

Follow Governor across every available national year. Rankings and birth counts remain separated by the source dataset’s girl and boy categories.

Governor birth-count history

The chart samples long histories for faster loading. The complete table below includes every recorded year.

Year	Category	Births	Rank	Change from previous recorded year
2011	Boys	5	#12,287	Down 8,324 places
1972	Boys	7	#3,963	Up 70 places
1962	Boys	5	#4,033	Down 1,269 places
1955	Boys	9	#2,764	Up 379 places
1953	Boys	7	#3,143	Up 230 places
1952	Boys	6	#3,373	Down 9 places
1951	Boys	6	#3,364	Up 317 places
1950	Boys	5	#3,681	Down 1,075 places
1949	Boys	9	#2,606	Up 1,062 places
1948	Boys	5	#3,668	Down 298 places
1947	Boys	6	#3,370	Down 374 places
1945	Boys	6	#2,996	Down 134 places
1944	Boys	7	#2,862	Down 299 places
1943	Boys	9	#2,563	Up 149 places
1942	Boys	8	#2,712	Down 505 places
1941	Boys	11	#2,207	Up 473 places
1937	Boys	8	#2,680	Up 869 places
1936	Boys	5	#3,549	Down 598 places
1935	Boys	7	#2,951	Up 691 places
1933	Boys	5	#3,642	Down 550 places
1932	Boys	7	#3,092	Down 441 places
1931	Boys	9	#2,651	Down 358 places
1930	Boys	12	#2,293	Up 1,666 places
1929	Boys	5	#3,959	Down 1,300 places
1928	Boys	10	#2,659	Up 253 places
1927	Boys	9	#2,912	Down 823 places
1925	Boys	15	#2,089	Up 552 places
1924	Boys	11	#2,641	Down 700 places
1923	Boys	17	#1,941	Up 689 places
1922	Boys	11	#2,630	Up 2 places
1921	Boys	11	#2,632	Down 296 places
1920	Boys	13	#2,336	Up 329 places
1919	Boys	10	#2,665	Up 217 places
1918	Boys	9	#2,882	Down 150 places
1917	Boys	9	#2,732	Down 2 places
1916	Boys	9	#2,730	Up 99 places
1915	Boys	8	#2,829	Up 435 places
1914	Boys	5	#3,264	Down 1,518 places
1912	Boys	9	#1,746	Down 325 places
1910	Boys	6	#1,421	Down 259 places
1900	Boys	6	#1,162	Down 96 places
1892	Boys	5	#1,066	Down 277 places
1889	Boys	7	#789	—