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

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Peak · boys
1990 · 43 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,423
since 1968

Cj over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201991peak #7,097, 1994peak #1,809, 1990girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#3,94927
2024#3,89628
2023#3,34735
2022#3,27836
2021#3,42733
2020#2,65847
2019#3,57131
2018#4,22624
2017#3,44032
2016#12,8767#4,77620
2015#3,36533
2014#2,62246
2013#3,18934
2012#2,77243
2011#3,36432
2010#3,30833
2009#3,16236
2008#15,4056#3,48631
2007#3,02538
2006#13,6067#3,02436
2005#10,9219#2,84637
2004#3,21730
2003#15,7845#2,67437
2002#13,5956#2,68535
2001#2,56237
2000#2,67434
1999#12,6886#2,60833
1998#11,1387#2,45035
1997#7,28312#2,54631
1996#13,5185#2,53530
1995#13,3865#2,14038
1994#7,09712#1,92743
1993#10,5887#2,69726
1992#2,30332
1991#9,3368#2,05236
1990#1,80943
1989#7,44910#2,35928
1988#2,59922
1987#2,72519
1986#8,5237#2,22625
1985#8,3187#4,05210
1984#8,1537#3,10714
1983#4,1419
1982#3,96610
1981#3,03014
1980#3,61511
1979#4,8427
1978#4,5547
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First appearance
1968

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
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
22 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1968
  • Peaked 1990 at #1,809 (43 births)
  • Births halved by 2016, 26 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 36,725
  • 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
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 24.7% of all boys named Cj (351) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s5#4,136 (1968)#4,136
1970s24#4,554 (1978)#5,117
1980s162#2,226 (1986)#3,182
1990s347#1,809 (1990)#2,307
2000s351#2,562 (2001)#2,936
2010s328#2,622 (2014)#3,463
2020s206#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 1991

girls
#9,336
8 births · 1 in 234,376 girls
boys
#2,052
36 births · 1 in 56,120 boys

Top girls' names in 1991

  1. #1Ashley43,477
  2. #2Jessica43,398
  3. #3Brittany29,093
  4. #4Amanda28,896
  5. #5Samantha25,651
  6. #6Sarah25,233
  7. #7Stephanie22,775
  8. #8Jennifer20,673
  9. #9Elizabeth20,395
  10. #10Emily20,311
  11. #9,336Cj8

Top boys' names in 1991

  1. #1Michael60,810
  2. #2Christopher47,111
  3. #3Matthew41,647
  4. #4Joshua41,226
  5. #5Andrew31,539
  6. #6Daniel30,935
  7. #7James30,514
  8. #8David30,416
  9. #9Joseph29,840
  10. #10John27,809
  11. #2,052Cj36
More about 1991

girls

1,875,007 girls got a published name in 1991; 1 in 234,376 of them was named Cj, which outranked 39.6% of the 15,466 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Cj
  1. #8,588Zola9
  2. #8,588Zoua9
  3. #8,588Zuleica9
  4. #9,336Cj8
  5. #9,336Aaisha8
  6. #9,336Aaryn8
  7. #9,336Abbigale8
  8. #10,271Abelina7
  9. #10,271Abeni7
  10. #10,271Abiola7

Tied with 934 names at #9,336; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1990
Risers
  1. 1,600Rebeccah#2,600#1,000
  2. 1,221Ieshia#1,938#717
  3. 1,135Miriah#2,081#946
  4. 861Alexus#1,813#952
  5. 676Chynna#1,512#836
Fallers
  1. 568Infant#432#1,000
  2. 510Lakeshia#897#1,407
  3. 466Latifah#701#1,167
  4. 432Martika#757#1,189
  5. 416Cecily#575#991

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

2,020,328 boys got a published name in 1991; 1 in 56,120 of them was named Cj, which outranked 78.7% of the 9,648 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Cj
  1. #2,019Wilber37
  2. #2,019Yakov37
  3. #2,019Zachory37
  4. #2,052Cj36
  5. #2,052Aston36
  6. #2,052Christan36
  7. #2,052Darris36
  8. #2,095Ace35
  9. #2,095Alston35
  10. #2,095Amado35

Tied with 42 names at #2,052; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1990
Risers
  1. 4,462Devante#5,382#920
  2. 1,656Unnamed#2,628#972
  3. 1,496Jaleel#2,373#877
  4. 811Gunnar#1,516#705
  5. 672Dijon#1,587#915
Fallers
  1. 1,000Arsenio#744#1,744
  2. 773Brittany#995#1,768
  3. 281Infant#389#670
  4. 281Jarret#881#1,162
  5. 273Elton#963#1,236

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1991