Names That Peaked In 2017
These names hit their all-time highest U.S. ranking in 2017 and have never ranked as high since — the sound of that moment, frozen in the data. (The #1 names that year were Emma and Liam — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,576#53 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 20,818#1 | Steady | 2024 | |||
| 2,646#96 | Down 25 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 6,480#38 | Down 9 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 2,416#152 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 1,156#291 | Down 80 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 2,131#172 | Down 41 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 1,664#210 | Down 40 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 1,335#259 | Down 72 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 786#405 | Down 234 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 654#470 | Down 175 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 1,191#262 | Down 110 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 748#418 | Down 132 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 1,423#213 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 753#415 | Down 214 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 993#337 | Down 16 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 603#492 | Down 117 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 867#353 | Down 50 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 970#315 | Up 15 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 1,416#244 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 653#473 | Down 89 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 338#808 | Down 311 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 770#418 | Down 66 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 592#502 | Down 131 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 481#608 | Down 246 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 422#653 | Down 241 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 530#567 | Up 30 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 325#837 | Down 392 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 146#1,473 | Down 444 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 326#782 | Down 185 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 237#1,048 | Down 303 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 206#1,061 | Down 410 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 349#745 | Up 120 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 319#791 | Up 117 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 156#1,401 | Down 587 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 337#765 | Up 36 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 284#922 | Down 58 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 245#1,025 | Up 28 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 200#1,160 | Down 82 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 151#1,295 | Down 624 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 269#956 | Down 233 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 202#1,144 | Down 352 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 159#1,252 | Down 456 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 199#1,168 | Down 76 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 175#1,180 | Down 191 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 207#1,056 | Down 259 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 107#1,592 | Down 761 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 181#1,156 | Up 86 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 136#1,549 | Down 449 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 63#2,233 | Down 1,008 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 198#1,172 | Up 26 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 268#960 | Up 125 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 57#2,397 | Down 1,181 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 199#1,164 | Down 216 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 124#1,448 | Down 372 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 78#1,965 | Down 886 rank positions in five years | 2017 |
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How this list is built
A name “peaked” in 2017 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.