Mortimer
Mortimer is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 481st, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191691 births
- Best rank
- #481in 1882
- Since 1880
- 1,943people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,943 boys have been named Mortimer in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 91 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 91 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1910s alone account for 33%. It has spent 40 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Mortimer | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 99 | |
| 1890s | 93 | |
| 1900s | 97 | |
| 1910s | 645 | |
| 1920s | 603 | |
| 1930s | 187 | |
| 1940s | 75 | |
| 1950s | 59 | |
| 1960s | 39 | |
| 1970s | 17 | |
| 2010s | 10 | |
| 2020s | 19 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Mortimer was the 613th 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 Mortimer
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Emilpeak 1917
- Adolphpeak 1917
- Ferdinandpeak 1918
- Elmerpeak 1918
- Aloispeak 1918
- Melvillepeak 1918
- Omerpeak 1918
- Adelbertpeak 1918
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.