Philmore Popularity by Year

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

Philmore 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
1979	Boys	5	#6,056	Down 2,383 places
1968	Boys	6	#3,673	Down 457 places
1956	Boys	7	#3,216	Down 40 places
1954	Boys	7	#3,176	Down 496 places
1952	Boys	9	#2,680	Up 341 places
1950	Boys	7	#3,021	Down 684 places
1949	Boys	11	#2,337	Up 673 places
1948	Boys	7	#3,010	Up 723 places
1947	Boys	5	#3,733	Down 560 places
1946	Boys	6	#3,173	Down 896 places
1943	Boys	11	#2,277	Up 595 places
1941	Boys	7	#2,872	Up 587 places
1940	Boys	5	#3,459	Down 346 places
1939	Boys	6	#3,113	Down 208 places
1937	Boys	7	#2,905	Down 721 places
1936	Boys	11	#2,184	Up 62 places
1935	Boys	11	#2,246	Up 1,433 places
1934	Boys	5	#3,679	Down 675 places
1933	Boys	7	#3,004	Up 357 places
1932	Boys	6	#3,361	Down 1,033 places
1931	Boys	11	#2,328	Up 1,673 places
1930	Boys	5	#4,001	Down 1,021 places
1929	Boys	8	#2,980	Up 96 places
1928	Boys	8	#3,076	Down 373 places
1927	Boys	10	#2,703	Up 201 places
1926	Boys	9	#2,904	Down 591 places
1925	Boys	13	#2,313	Down 181 places
1924	Boys	15	#2,132	Down 9 places
1923	Boys	15	#2,123	Up 224 places
1922	Boys	13	#2,347	Up 285 places
1921	Boys	11	#2,632	Down 580 places
1920	Boys	16	#2,052	Up 1,063 places
1919	Boys	8	#3,115	Down 233 places
1918	Boys	9	#2,882	Down 602 places
1917	Boys	12	#2,280	Up 263 places
1916	Boys	10	#2,543	Down 233 places
1915	Boys	11	#2,310	Up 954 places
1914	Boys	5	#3,264	Down 991 places
1913	Boys	7	#2,273	Down 388 places
1912	Boys	8	#1,885	—