Unknown
Unknown is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 38 births. Its best rank was 308th, in 1954.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 380.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1954549 births
- Best rank
- #308in 1954
- Since 1880
- 19,602people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,827 boys have been named Unknown in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1954, with 549 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1957, and the 1950s alone account for 43%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Unknown is used for both sexes: 50% of its bearers are girls (9,775), most of them born around 1954.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Unknown | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 51 | |
| 1890s | 97 | |
| 1900s | 98 | |
| 1910s | 211 | |
| 1920s | 149 | |
| 1930s | 64 | |
| 1940s | 711 | |
| 1950s | 4,206 | |
| 1960s | 762 | |
| 1970s | 196 | |
| 1980s | 443 | |
| 1990s | 1,296 | |
| 2000s | 412 | |
| 2010s | 789 | |
| 2020s | 342 |
In 1954, its biggest year
Unknown was the 308th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1954 were Michael, Robert, James, John and David. See all of 1954.
Names that rose and fell with Unknown
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Randolphpeak 1952
- Christophepeak 1955
- Randpeak 1952
- Kirbypeak 1957
- Rickiepeak 1954
- Dwightpeak 1953
- Audiepeak 1956
- Brucepeak 1956
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.