Napoleon
Napoleon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 12 births. Its best rank was 297th, in 1887.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 120.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1926122 births
- Best rank
- #297in 1887
- Since 1880
- 7,782people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,782 boys have been named Napoleon in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 122 births.
The name has all but left use: 12 births in 2024, against 122 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1920s alone account for 13%. It has spent 91 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Napoleon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 267 | |
| 1890s | 227 | |
| 1900s | 239 | |
| 1910s | 797 | |
| 1920s | 1,036 | |
| 1930s | 798 | |
| 1940s | 703 | |
| 1950s | 899 | |
| 1960s | 795 | |
| 1970s | 526 | |
| 1980s | 531 | |
| 1990s | 388 | |
| 2000s | 312 | |
| 2010s | 203 | |
| 2020s | 61 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Napoleon was the 558th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1926 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Napoleon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Benpeak 1918
- Frankpeak 1918
- Alonzapeak 1961
- Budpeak 1928
- Adolphuspeak 1922
- Sanderspeak 1951
- Amospeak 1922
- Irapeak 1947
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.