Rice Popularity by Year

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

Rice 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
1972	Boys	5	#4,986	Down 998 places
1959	Boys	5	#3,988	Down 615 places
1952	Boys	6	#3,373	Up 341 places
1951	Boys	5	#3,714	Down 385 places
1950	Boys	6	#3,329	Up 41 places
1947	Boys	6	#3,370	Down 374 places
1945	Boys	6	#2,996	Up 538 places
1938	Boys	5	#3,534	Down 680 places
1936	Boys	7	#2,854	Up 423 places
1934	Boys	6	#3,277	Down 539 places
1933	Boys	8	#2,738	Up 354 places
1932	Boys	7	#3,092	Up 298 places
1931	Boys	6	#3,390	Down 781 places
1930	Boys	10	#2,609	Up 371 places
1929	Boys	8	#2,980	Up 1,171 places
1928	Boys	5	#4,151	Down 700 places
1927	Boys	7	#3,451	Up 257 places
1926	Boys	6	#3,708	Down 300 places
1925	Boys	7	#3,408	Down 148 places
1924	Boys	8	#3,260	Down 814 places
1923	Boys	12	#2,446	Up 568 places
1922	Boys	9	#3,014	Up 503 places
1921	Boys	7	#3,517	Down 309 places
1920	Boys	8	#3,208	Down 1,145 places
1919	Boys	15	#2,063	Up 1,033 places
1918	Boys	8	#3,096	Down 140 places
1917	Boys	8	#2,956	Down 413 places
1916	Boys	10	#2,543	Up 539 places
1915	Boys	7	#3,082	Down 813 places
1912	Boys	6	#2,269	Down 1,158 places
1906	Boys	6	#1,111	Up 10 places
1898	Boys	5	#1,121	Down 64 places
1897	Boys	5	#1,057	Up 44 places
1896	Boys	5	#1,101	Down 66 places
1893	Boys	5	#1,035	Down 41 places
1890	Boys	5	#994	Down 205 places
1889	Boys	7	#789	Down 34 places
1888	Boys	8	#755	Up 44 places
1883	Boys	6	#799	Down 45 places
1882	Boys	7	#754	Down 114 places
1880	Boys	9	#640	—