Booker
Booker is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 152 births. Its best rank was 177th, in 1910.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1520.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1916294 births
- Best rank
- #177in 1910
- Since 1882
- 12,050people given the name
The story in the numbers
12,050 boys have been named Booker in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 294 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 1938, and the 1910s alone account for 17%. It has spent 74 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Booker | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 16 | |
| 1890s | 79 | |
| 1900s | 809 | |
| 1910s | 2,051 | |
| 1920s | 1,769 | |
| 1930s | 1,542 | |
| 1940s | 1,548 | |
| 1950s | 1,187 | |
| 1960s | 614 | |
| 1970s | 425 | |
| 1980s | 295 | |
| 1990s | 217 | |
| 2000s | 188 | |
| 2010s | 552 | |
| 2020s | 758 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Booker was the 303rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1916 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Booker
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Roseveltpeak 1933
- Cephuspeak 1922
- Buddiepeak 1925
- Busterpeak 1918
- Thedorepeak 1929
- Rooseveltpeak 1933
- Leviepeak 1919
- Earliepeak 1922
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.