Male

Last seen for boys in 2015 at #5,058

Peak · boys
1991 · 223 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,530
since 1963

Male over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Male has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201963peak #679, 1991boys
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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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rankbirths
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2015#5,05818
2014#2,13864
2013#2,46150
2012#3,11536
2011#4,98318
2010#4,67820
2009
2008#8,3249
2007
2006#9,5857
2005#6,63411
2004#9,9486
2003#5,03515
2002#3,90921
2001#3,84221
2000#2,80532
1999#3,37623
1998#3,09225
1997#2,90326
1996#2,01743
1995#1,107105
1994#963131
1993#958126
1992#1,077104
1991#679223
1990#702211
1989#2,02735
1988#1,24967
1987#1,79336
1986#3,44013
1985#5,7856
1984#4,5528
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1981#6,2625
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1969#4,4045
1968#4,1365
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First appearance
1963

The first year at least five boys were named Male! It came in at #4,048, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1963–1983, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Male
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2015
  • Biggest jump: 1,325 spots in 1990 (#2,027#702)
  • Biggest drop: 398 spots in 1992 (#679#1,077)
Rise & fade · boys
28 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1963
  • Peaked 1991 at #679 (223 births)
  • Births halved by 1992, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 4 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1990–1991
Share of babies · boys
1 in 9,060
  • Highest: 1 in 9,060 boys born in 1991 were named Male (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 106,486 boys born in 2015 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 66.5% of all boys named Male (1,017) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s15#4,048 (1963)#4,196
1970s0
1980s170#1,249 (1988)#3,587
1990s1,017#679 (1991)#1,687
2000s122#2,805 (2000)#6,260
2010s206#2,138 (2014)#3,739

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.

Male in 1963

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#4,048
5 births · 1 in 406,216 boys

Top boys' names in 1963

  1. #1Michael83,771
  2. #2John78,636
  3. #3David78,444
  4. #4James71,294
  5. #5Robert70,007
  6. #6Mark49,342
  7. #7William44,453
  8. #8Richard40,772
  9. #9Thomas35,490
  10. #10Jeffrey31,701
  11. #4,048Male5
More about 1963

boys

2,031,078 boys got a published name in 1963; 1 in 406,216 of them was named Male, which outranked 12.4% of the 4,621 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Male
  1. #3,646Yon6
  2. #3,646Zeb6
  3. #3,646Zenon6
  4. #4,048Male5
  5. #4,048Abbott5
  6. #4,048Abie5
  7. #4,048Abron5

Tied with 573 names at #4,048; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1962
Risers
  1. 1,551Tal#2,364#813
  2. 1,141Jaimie#1,962#821
  3. 540Stoney#1,038#498
  4. 364Pamela#1,311#947
  5. 331Giovanni#1,242#911
Fallers
  1. 324Olin#871#1,195
  2. 295Enoch#984#1,279
  3. 285Rand#953#1,238
  4. 283Vernell#996#1,279
  5. 269Bentley#926#1,195

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

See the top 100 for 1963