Buck
Buck is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 55 births. Its best rank was 365th, in 1910.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 550.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1919102 births
- Best rank
- #365in 1910
- Since 1880
- 6,534people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,534 boys have been named Buck in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 102 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 1920s alone account for 12%. It has spent 76 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Buck | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 120 | |
| 1890s | 157 | |
| 1900s | 272 | |
| 1910s | 728 | |
| 1920s | 759 | |
| 1930s | 653 | |
| 1940s | 442 | |
| 1950s | 439 | |
| 1960s | 473 | |
| 1970s | 710 | |
| 1980s | 727 | |
| 1990s | 264 | |
| 2000s | 192 | |
| 2010s | 325 | |
| 2020s | 273 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Buck was the 597th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1919 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Buck
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Goldenpeak 2023
- Obiepeak 1924
- Otispeak 1920
- Freemanpeak 1918
- Elmorepeak 1918
- Ennispeak 1922
- Haywoodpeak 1919
- Websterpeak 1915
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.