Buckley
#2,183 for boys in 2025, 65 births
- Peak · boys
- 1962 · 18 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,084since 1916
Buckley over time
Rank among boys' names. Buckley has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,183 | 65 |
| 2024 | #2,028 | 75 |
| 2023 | #2,129 | 68 |
| 2022 | #2,136 | 69 |
| 2021 | #2,652 | 48 |
| 2020 | #3,136 | 36 |
| 2019 | #4,114 | 25 |
| 2018 | #4,739 | 20 |
| 2017 | #4,105 | 25 |
| 2016 | #5,124 | 18 |
| 2015 | #6,676 | 12 |
| 2014 | #6,307 | 13 |
| 2013 | #8,118 | 9 |
| 2012 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | — | |
| 2006 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | — | |
| 1998 | — | |
| 1997 | — | |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #3,692 | 11 |
| 1981 | #3,030 | 14 |
| 1980 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #3,357 | 12 |
| 1978 | #3,400 | 11 |
| 1977 | #2,910 | 14 |
| 1976 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #3,558 | 9 |
| 1973 | #2,857 | 12 |
| 1972 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #2,813 | 12 |
| 1970 | #2,621 | 13 |
| 1969 | #2,415 | 13 |
| 1968 | #2,445 | 12 |
| 1967 | #2,139 | 14 |
| 1966 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1965 | #2,780 | 9 |
| 1964 | #2,205 | 14 |
| 1963 | #3,318 | 7 |
| 1962 | #1,896 | 18 |
| 1961 | — | |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,821 | 9 |
| 1958 | #2,642 | 10 |
| 1957 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,435 | 11 |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,905 | 8 |
| 1952 | #3,373 | 6 |
| 1951 | #2,495 | 10 |
| 1950 | #2,770 | 8 |
| 1949 | #3,298 | 6 |
| 1948 | #2,443 | 10 |
| 1947 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,143 | 12 |
| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,633 | 8 |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,212 | 6 |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,871 | 7 |
| 1939 | #3,480 | 5 |
| 1938 | #2,868 | 7 |
| 1937 | #2,680 | 8 |
| 1936 | #2,301 | 10 |
| 1935 | — | |
| 1934 | #2,973 | 7 |
| 1933 | #3,004 | 7 |
| 1932 | #3,776 | 5 |
| 1931 | #3,390 | 6 |
| 1930 | #2,444 | 11 |
| 1929 | #2,317 | 12 |
| 1928 | #3,697 | 6 |
| 1927 | #3,151 | 8 |
| 1926 | #4,201 | 5 |
| 1925 | — | |
| 1924 | #3,505 | 7 |
| 1923 | #2,950 | 9 |
| 1922 | — | |
| 1921 | #4,322 | 5 |
| 1920 | — | |
| 1919 | — | |
| 1918 | #4,179 | 5 |
| 1917 | #3,981 | 5 |
| 1916 | #3,897 | 5 |
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| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Buckley! It came in at #3,897, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1922, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Buckley
- 155 spots since 2024 (#2,028 → #2,183)
- 953 spots since 2020 (#3,136 → #2,183)
- 4,493 spots since 2015 (#6,676 → #2,183)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 1962 at #1,896 (18 births)
- Births halved by 1963, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,972 boys born in 2024 were named Buckley (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,278 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,896 in 1962, was only 1 in 114,932 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.3% of all boys named Buckley (361) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 15 | #3,897 (1916) | #4,019 |
| 1920s | 52 | #2,317 (1929) | #3,449 |
| 1930s | 66 | #2,301 (1936) | #2,991 |
| 1940s | 49 | #2,143 (1946) | #2,767 |
| 1950s | 67 | #2,435 (1955) | #2,929 |
| 1960s | 93 | #1,896 (1962) | #2,592 |
| 1970s | 106 | #2,621 (1970) | #3,346 |
| 1980s | 60 | #3,030 (1981) | #4,611 |
| 1990s | 20 | #5,823 (1990) | #7,164 |
| 2000s | 48 | #8,985 (2009) | #10,168 |
| 2010s | 147 | #4,105 (2017) | #6,553 |
| 2020s | 361 | #2,028 (2024) | #2,377 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Buckley in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 25,156 of them was named Buckley, which outranked 85.0% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,113Vander69
- #2,113Vayu69
- #2,113Zacchaeus69
- #2,129Buckley68
- #2,129Abbas68
- #2,129Buck68
- #2,129Chozyn68
- #2,147Adonai67
- #2,147Amor67
- #2,147Asiel67
Tied with 17 names at #2,129; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.