Selden Popularity by Year

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

Selden 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
1978	Boys	5	#5,772	Down 2,132 places
1962	Boys	6	#3,640	Up 398 places
1960	Boys	5	#4,038	Down 94 places
1958	Boys	5	#3,944	Down 2 places
1956	Boys	5	#3,942	Down 1,262 places
1952	Boys	9	#2,680	Up 618 places
1949	Boys	6	#3,298	Up 370 places
1948	Boys	5	#3,668	Down 806 places
1947	Boys	8	#2,862	Down 328 places
1946	Boys	9	#2,534	Up 575 places
1944	Boys	6	#3,109	Down 927 places
1943	Boys	12	#2,182	Up 1,030 places
1942	Boys	6	#3,212	Down 721 places
1941	Boys	9	#2,491	Up 639 places
1940	Boys	6	#3,130	Down 301 places
1939	Boys	7	#2,829	Up 39 places
1938	Boys	7	#2,868	Down 188 places
1937	Boys	8	#2,680	Up 467 places
1936	Boys	6	#3,147	Up 105 places
1935	Boys	6	#3,252	Up 25 places
1934	Boys	6	#3,277	Up 365 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 687 places
1929	Boys	8	#2,980	Down 137 places
1928	Boys	9	#2,843	Down 809 places
1927	Boys	16	#2,034	Up 1,351 places
1926	Boys	7	#3,385	Down 1,192 places
1925	Boys	14	#2,193	Down 61 places
1924	Boys	15	#2,132	Up 1,043 places
1923	Boys	8	#3,175	Down 161 places
1922	Boys	9	#3,014	Down 749 places
1921	Boys	14	#2,265	Down 134 places
1920	Boys	15	#2,131	Up 254 places
1919	Boys	12	#2,385	Up 314 places
1918	Boys	10	#2,699	Down 713 places
1917	Boys	15	#1,986	Up 1,911 places
1916	Boys	5	#3,897	Down 1,439 places
1915	Boys	10	#2,458	Down 357 places
1914	Boys	10	#2,101	Up 172 places
1913	Boys	7	#2,273	Down 527 places
1912	Boys	9	#1,746	Down 6 places
1911	Boys	5	#1,740	—