Buffy
Buffy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 529th, in 1972.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1972319 births
- Best rank
- #529in 1972
- Since 1951
- 3,306people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,306 girls have been named Buffy in the United States since 1951, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1972, with 319 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 319 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1973, and the 1970s alone account for 68%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1972, its biggest year
Buffy was the 529th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1972 were Jennifer, Michelle, Lisa, Kimberly and Amy. See all of 1972.
Names that rose and fell with Buffy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Latoniapeak 1972
- Lashunpeak 1970
- Lashonpeak 1970
- Tarshapeak 1974
- Lasonyapeak 1971
- Anjanettepeak 1971
- Shondapeak 1970
- Triciapeak 1971
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.