Ceylon

Last seen for boys in 1947 at #3,733

Peak · boys
1880 · 5 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
86
since 1880

Ceylon over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Ceylon has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201880peak #909, 1880boys
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1880#9095
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Ceylon was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1880–1914, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Ceylon
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1947
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1880 at #909 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1881, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1880
Share of babies · boys
1 in 22,098
  • Highest: 1 in 22,098 boys born in 1880 were named Ceylon (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 365,920 boys born in 1947 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 40.7% of all boys named Ceylon (35) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s5#909 (1880)#909
1890s0
1900s0
1910s32#2,821 (1913)#3,274
1920s35#3,151 (1927)#3,923
1930s9#2,651 (1931)#2,651
1940s5#3,733 (1947)#3,733

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.

Ceylon in 1880

boys
#909
5 births · 1 in 22,098 boys

Top boys' names in 1880

  1. #1John9,655
  2. #2William9,532
  3. #3James5,927
  4. #4Charles5,348
  5. #5George5,126
  6. #6Frank3,242
  7. #7Joseph2,632
  8. #8Thomas2,534
  9. #9Henry2,444
  10. #10Robert2,415
  11. #909Ceylon5
More about 1880

boys

110,490 boys got a published name in 1880; 1 in 22,098 of them was named Ceylon, which outranked 14.1% of the 1,058 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 44.2% of boys (8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ceylon
  1. #809Willian6
  2. #809Yee6
  3. #809Zeke6
  4. #909Ceylon5
  5. #909Ab5
  6. #909Abbott5
  7. #909Agustus5

Tied with 149 names at #909; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

See the top 100 for 1880