NameTrends.U.S. Baby Name Data

May Boys

The U.S. popularity history of May: every year it appeared on the national list since 1882, with 699 recorded births in total. All figures come from official Social Security card application data.

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Total recorded births
699
Peak year
1925 #1660
Years on the list
76
10-year trend
-66.7%

In the 1920s ·

Popularity history

1882–1996

YearBirthsRank
19628#3215
19635#4426
19657#3447
19805#6907
19829#4461
19839#4368
19845#6982
19868#5163
19876#6659
198811#4357
19896#7587
19909#5662
19917#7017
19927#7153
19966#8624

Most recent years shown. The full curve above covers every year the name appeared.

Where {name} was most used in 1925

State-level records for this name and year are not published (names with fewer than 5 births in a state are suppressed).

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