Cj
Last seen for girls in 2016 at #12,876 · #3,949 for boys in 2025, 27 births
Given to boys 91.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1990 · 43 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,423since 1968
Cj over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,949 | 27 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,896 | 28 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,347 | 35 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,278 | 36 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,427 | 33 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,658 | 47 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,571 | 31 | |
| 2018 | — | #4,226 | 24 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,440 | 32 | |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #4,776 | 20 |
| 2015 | — | #3,365 | 33 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,622 | 46 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,189 | 34 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,772 | 43 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,364 | 32 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,308 | 33 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,162 | 36 | |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #3,486 | 31 |
| 2007 | — | #3,025 | 38 | |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | #3,024 | 36 |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | #2,846 | 37 |
| 2004 | — | #3,217 | 30 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #2,674 | 37 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #2,685 | 35 |
| 2001 | — | #2,562 | 37 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,674 | 34 | |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #2,608 | 33 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #2,450 | 35 |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 | #2,546 | 31 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #2,535 | 30 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #2,140 | 38 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #1,927 | 43 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #2,697 | 26 |
| 1992 | — | #2,303 | 32 | |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #2,052 | 36 |
| 1990 | — | #1,809 | 43 | |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 | #2,359 | 28 |
| 1988 | — | #2,599 | 22 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,725 | 19 | |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | #2,226 | 25 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #4,052 | 10 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #3,107 | 14 |
| 1983 | — | #4,141 | 9 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,966 | 10 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,030 | 14 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,615 | 11 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
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| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cj! It came in at #4,136, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1977, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Cj
- 53 spots since 2024 (#3,896 → #3,949)
- 1,291 spots since 2020 (#2,658 → #3,949)
- 584 spots since 2015 (#3,365 → #3,949)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1990 at #1,809 (43 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 26 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 36,725 boys born in 2020 were named Cj (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 63,262 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,809 in 1990, was only 1 in 47,768 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.7% of all boys named Cj (351) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,136 (1968) | #4,136 |
| 1970s | 24 | #4,554 (1978) | #5,117 |
| 1980s | 162 | #2,226 (1986) | #3,182 |
| 1990s | 347 | #1,809 (1990) | #2,307 |
| 2000s | 351 | #2,562 (2001) | #2,936 |
| 2010s | 328 | #2,622 (2014) | #3,463 |
| 2020s | 206 | #2,658 (2020) | #3,426 |
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.
Cj in 1990
Top boys' names in 1990
More about 1990
boys
2,054,038 boys got a published name in 1990; 1 in 47,768 of them was named Cj, which outranked 80.9% of the 9,493 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,780Roscoe44
- #1,780Rowdy44
- #1,780Zacharie44
- #1,809Cj43
- #1,809Amber43
- #1,809Amin43
- #1,809Artemio43
- #1,840Adnan42
- #1,840Allante42
- #1,840Cassius42
Tied with 30 names at #1,809; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.