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Green

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Green has been given to 2,033 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1927, with 48 recorded.

Babies named Green, 1984

1 in 581,000

Green over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Green: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Green means

Green is a given name.

The naming story behind Green

Wikidata records Green as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q47324000, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,033 boys were recorded with the name Green between 1880 and 1984. Its highest annual count was 48 in 1927; its best national rank was #254 in 1886.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Green?

Green had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1984, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1984
1 in 581,000
6 of 3,488,451 births
Among boys only
1 in 301,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1984
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
403,003 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Green sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1984 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 403,003 children born in 1984 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Green. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Greens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Green was born before 1919 — so the typical Green is around 106 today.

Median birth year
1919
About 106 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
195
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.5% of all recorded uses (376).

Is Green 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
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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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1927 (48)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#254
1886

Spellings of Green

Green is not the most common spelling — Glenn is, with 39.4% against Green's 0.32%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Green is used

Across 1910–2025, Green was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 82,544 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 16,667
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 25,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 33,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6North Carolina1 in —
  7. 7Tennessee1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Green has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Green

People whose public names include Green, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Green by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#254
1886
Peak year
1927
48 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1984
All-time count
2,033
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Green

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

GreerGregorAmeenGreysenGreyNaveenYaseenDeenGreggGreigRasheenGreydenMateenGreydonGleenGreycenGregorioShaheenGreshamGreysynGregaryGregeryGrecoKareen

Names with a curve like Green

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Green, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

PearlArchElzaDockAllieEddOraWashingtonGustaveGeneralOleOtho

Sibling names for Green

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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