Bart
Bart is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 249th, in 1959.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 19591,022 births
- Best rank
- #249in 1959
- Since 1880
- 16,357people given the name
The story in the numbers
16,357 boys have been named Bart in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 1,022 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 1,022 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1963, and the 1960s alone account for 37%. It has spent 81 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Bart | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 97 | |
| 1890s | 73 | |
| 1900s | 71 | |
| 1910s | 228 | |
| 1920s | 393 | |
| 1930s | 493 | |
| 1940s | 955 | |
| 1950s | 3,295 | |
| 1960s | 6,126 | |
| 1970s | 2,974 | |
| 1980s | 1,263 | |
| 1990s | 256 | |
| 2000s | 93 | |
| 2010s | 35 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Bart was the 249th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1959 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Bart
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Curtpeak 1960
- Chrispeak 1961
- Carypeak 1957
- Tonypeak 1961
- Martypeak 1962
- Robpeak 1963
- Kirkpeak 1962
- Jeffpeak 1961
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.