Pledger
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Pledger has been given to 24 babies in the U.S. since 1919. 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 1920, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Pledger, 1938
1 in 369,000
Pledger 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Pledger?
Pledger had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1938, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1938
- 1 in 369,000
- 6 of 2,212,569 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 185,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1938
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,607 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Pledger sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1938 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 255,607 children born in 1938 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pledger. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Pledgers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Pledger was born before 1920 — so the typical Pledger is around 105 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 54.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 54.2% of all recorded uses (13).
Is Pledger 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1920 (7)
- Years since peak
- 105
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.0% average annual change
Spellings of Pledger
Pledger is not the most common spelling — Ledger is, with 85.8% against Pledger's 0.41%.
Where Pledger is used
Across 1910–2025, Pledger was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 806,790 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 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. Pledger has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Pledger by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Pledger
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Pledger
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.