Names that spiked once and never came back

A single year holding a fifth or more of every birth the name has ever recorded, then collapse.

Most names drift in and out over decades. These did not. Each one below put at least fifteen per cent of every birth it has ever recorded into a single year, peaked at least five years ago, and is now running at under a tenth of that peak. That shape is what a name looks like when something outside the birth records pushed it. This site does not guess at what; the data contains the spike, not the reason.

Peak year	Births that year	Share in peak year (%)	Births in 2025
2,013	4,578	19	380
1,984	3,609	16	13
2,002	2,969	22	89
1,972	2,761	24	0
1,985	2,588	20	0
1,983	2,563	23	0
1,992	1,951	17	54
1,993	1,911	31	43
1,991	1,905	26	0
1,992	1,859	19	7
1,974	1,748	16	8
1,999	1,713	19	48
1,994	1,622	21	151
1,964	1,611	45	0
1,992	1,586	19	57
1,972	1,372	33	0
2,009	1,274	25	8
1,977	1,124	48	0
1,989	1,082	100	0
2,006	1,081	27	34
2,008	1,080	16	87
2,008	1,005	35	38
2,008	872	28	45
1,991	861	17	0
1,964	798	16	15
1,976	777	35	5
2,008	768	27	62
2,002	757	19	43
1,988	718	22	0
1,997	641	17	11
2,005	639	16	52
1,991	635	15	0
1,965	560	18	0
1,977	532	26	0
2,004	528	37	5
1,999	513	16	22
1,975	503	17	0
1,994	486	33	7
1,990	470	19	47
1,996	451	20	9

Computed from SSA birth records through 2025, using the definitions on the methodology page. Names without a link do not have a page yet — pages are released gradually, as explained here.