Names That Peaked In 1922
These names hit their all-time highest U.S. ranking in 1922 and have never ranked as high since — the sound of that moment, frozen in the data. (The #1 names that year were Mary and John — reigning champions usually peak in a different year than they reign.)
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93#2,044 | Down 197 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 272#948 | Up 90 rank positions in five years | 1922 | |||
| 32#4,429 | Up 1,581 rank positions in five years | 1922 | |||
| 679#459 | Up 33 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 50#2,633 | Up 49 rank positions in five years | 1922 | |||
| 174#1,285 | Up 90 rank positions in five years | 1922 | |||
| —Unranked | — | 1924 | |||
| 7#12,249 | Down 2,502 rank positions in five years | 1922 | |||
| 7#10,321 | Down 4,934 rank positions in five years | 1922 | |||
| —Unranked | — | 1922 | |||
| 14#7,743 | Up 3,069 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 22#4,584 | Up 728 rank positions in five years | 1922 | |||
| 9#8,378 | Up 510 rank positions in five years | 1922 | |||
| —Unranked | — | 1922 | |||
| 8#9,626 | Down 5,721 rank positions in five years | 1922 | |||
| 7#13,082 | Down 3,589 rank positions in five years | 1922 | |||
| 24#5,255 | Down 982 rank positions in five years | 1922 | |||
| —Unranked | — | 1922 | |||
| 6#14,267 | new | 1922 | |||
| 65#2,660 | Down 311 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| —Unranked | — | 1922 | |||
| —Unranked | — | 1922 | |||
| —Unranked | — | 1922 | |||
| —Unranked | — | 1922 |
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How this list is built
A name “peaked” in 1922 when that year holds its best-ever position in the national rankings — rank, not raw count, because raw counts track how many babies were born and would pile every “peak” into the boom years. To qualify, a name must have reached the top 1,000 at its height and have at least 500 all-time applications. Lists are ordered by that peak rank.
Ranks come from U.S. births, counted separately for girls and boys. “Unranked” today means fewer than 5 applications in the latest year — uncommon, never invalid.