Worth
Worth is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 24 births. Its best rank was 609th, in 1898.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 240.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191867 births
- Best rank
- #609in 1898
- Since 1880
- 2,191people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,191 boys have been named Worth in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 67 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 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 28 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Worth | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 45 | |
| 1890s | 76 | |
| 1900s | 67 | |
| 1910s | 415 | |
| 1920s | 489 | |
| 1930s | 303 | |
| 1940s | 216 | |
| 1950s | 165 | |
| 1960s | 100 | |
| 1970s | 60 | |
| 1980s | 56 | |
| 1990s | 13 | |
| 2000s | 31 | |
| 2010s | 79 | |
| 2020s | 76 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Worth was the 804th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Worth
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rupertpeak 1920
- Ellsworthpeak 1918
- Waldopeak 1915
- Ludwigpeak 1916
- Aloysiuspeak 1916
- Urbanpeak 1924
- Lambertpeak 1918
- Chesterpeak 1920
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.