Battle
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Battle has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Battle, 1917
1 in 401,000
Battle over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Battle?
Battle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1917, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1917
- 1 in 401,000
- 5 of 2,006,698 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 185,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1917
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 278,189 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Battle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1917 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 278,189 children born in 1917 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Battle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Battles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Battle was born before 1915 — so the typical Battle is around 110 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).
Is Battle rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1915 (5)
- Years since peak
- 110
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Battle
Battle is not the most common spelling — Bartley is, with 35.5% against Battle's 0.18%.
Battle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Battle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Battle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.