Less Popularity by Year

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

Less 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
1957	Boys	7	#3,257	Up 278 places
1956	Boys	6	#3,535	Down 83 places
1954	Boys	6	#3,452	Down 136 places
1948	Boys	6	#3,316	Up 417 places
1947	Boys	5	#3,733	Down 274 places
1940	Boys	5	#3,459	Up 21 places
1939	Boys	5	#3,480	Down 305 places
1938	Boys	6	#3,175	No rank change
1937	Boys	6	#3,175	Up 470 places
1935	Boys	5	#3,645	Down 3 places
1933	Boys	5	#3,642	Up 134 places
1932	Boys	5	#3,776	Down 13 places
1931	Boys	5	#3,763	Down 741 places
1930	Boys	8	#3,022	Up 537 places
1929	Boys	6	#3,559	Up 149 places
1926	Boys	6	#3,708	Down 553 places
1925	Boys	8	#3,155	Up 105 places
1924	Boys	8	#3,260	Down 1,036 places
1923	Boys	14	#2,224	Up 1,645 places
1921	Boys	6	#3,869	Down 380 places
1920	Boys	7	#3,489	Down 1,224 places
1919	Boys	13	#2,265	Up 1,103 places
1918	Boys	7	#3,368	Down 636 places
1917	Boys	9	#2,732	Up 445 places
1916	Boys	7	#3,177	Down 867 places
1915	Boys	11	#2,310	Up 147 places
1914	Boys	8	#2,457	Down 365 places
1913	Boys	8	#2,092	Down 47 places
1912	Boys	7	#2,045	Down 456 places
1910	Boys	5	#1,589	Down 495 places
1907	Boys	7	#1,094	Up 159 places
1906	Boys	5	#1,253	Down 20 places
1905	Boys	5	#1,233	Down 169 places
1904	Boys	6	#1,064	Down 330 places
1903	Boys	10	#734	Down 35 places
1900	Boys	13	#699	Up 358 places
1897	Boys	5	#1,057	Up 22 places
1895	Boys	5	#1,079	Down 105 places
1889	Boys	5	#974	Down 3 places
1884	Boys	5	#971	Down 105 places
1881	Boys	5	#866	—