Homer
Homer is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 26 births. Its best rank was 64th, in 1893.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 260.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19201,722 births
- Best rank
- #64in 1893
- Since 1880
- 60,891people given the name
The story in the numbers
60,891 boys have been named Homer in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 1,722 births — 0.16% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 26 births in 2024, against 1,722 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 103 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 37 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Homer | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,213 | |
| 1890s | 2,637 | |
| 1900s | 2,915 | |
| 1910s | 11,471 | |
| 1920s | 15,145 | |
| 1930s | 9,413 | |
| 1940s | 6,956 | |
| 1950s | 4,606 | |
| 1960s | 2,492 | |
| 1970s | 1,308 | |
| 1980s | 747 | |
| 1990s | 363 | |
| 2000s | 207 | |
| 2010s | 256 | |
| 2020s | 162 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Homer was the 100th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Homer
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Clarencepeak 1921
- Elmerpeak 1918
- Horacepeak 1921
- Millardpeak 1922
- Hermanpeak 1921
- Earlepeak 1918
- Melvillepeak 1918
- Lutherpeak 1922
Other spellings in the data
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.