Needham Popularity by Year

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

Needham birth-count history

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Year	Category	Births	Rank	Change from previous recorded year
1962	Boys	5	#4,033	Down 89 places
1958	Boys	5	#3,944	Down 728 places
1956	Boys	7	#3,216	Up 611 places
1954	Boys	5	#3,827	Down 684 places
1953	Boys	7	#3,143	Down 268 places
1952	Boys	8	#2,875	Down 73 places
1949	Boys	8	#2,802	Up 866 places
1948	Boys	5	#3,668	Down 495 places
1946	Boys	6	#3,173	Down 768 places
1943	Boys	10	#2,405	Up 307 places
1942	Boys	8	#2,712	Up 421 places
1941	Boys	6	#3,133	Up 326 places
1940	Boys	5	#3,459	Down 346 places
1939	Boys	6	#3,113	Up 405 places
1937	Boys	5	#3,518	Down 371 places
1936	Boys	6	#3,147	Up 498 places
1935	Boys	5	#3,645	Down 641 places
1933	Boys	7	#3,004	Down 539 places
1932	Boys	10	#2,465	Up 316 places
1930	Boys	9	#2,781	Up 778 places
1929	Boys	6	#3,559	Down 716 places
1928	Boys	9	#2,843	Down 722 places
1927	Boys	15	#2,121	Up 315 places
1926	Boys	12	#2,436	Up 1,305 places
1925	Boys	6	#3,741	Down 1,394 places
1924	Boys	13	#2,347	Down 224 places
1923	Boys	15	#2,123	Up 224 places
1922	Boys	13	#2,347	Up 155 places
1921	Boys	12	#2,502	Up 1,313 places
1920	Boys	6	#3,815	Down 1,304 places
1919	Boys	11	#2,511	Up 371 places
1918	Boys	9	#2,882	Up 74 places
1917	Boys	8	#2,956	Down 30 places
1916	Boys	8	#2,926	Up 156 places
1915	Boys	7	#3,082	Down 625 places
1914	Boys	8	#2,457	Up 39 places
1913	Boys	6	#2,496	Down 1,375 places
1898	Boys	5	#1,121	Down 42 places
1895	Boys	5	#1,079	Down 172 places
1893	Boys	6	#907	Down 278 places
1890	Boys	10	#629	Up 342 places
1884	Boys	5	#971	—