Butch
Butch is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 631st, in 1952.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1956139 births
- Best rank
- #631in 1952
- Since 1919
- 3,423people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,423 boys have been named Butch in the United States since 1919, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 139 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 1958, and the 1950s alone account for 35%. It has spent 23 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Butch | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 5 | |
| 1930s | 53 | |
| 1940s | 646 | |
| 1950s | 1,189 | |
| 1960s | 740 | |
| 1970s | 316 | |
| 1980s | 211 | |
| 1990s | 121 | |
| 2000s | 73 | |
| 2010s | 36 | |
| 2020s | 28 |
In 1956, its biggest year
Butch was the 643rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1956 were Michael, James, Robert, David and John. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Butch
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Terrypeak 1957
- Dannypeak 1954
- Barrypeak 1962
- Garrypeak 1954
- Skippeak 1960
- Garypeak 1952
- Ronniepeak 1947
- Randpeak 1952
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.