Metro

Last seen for boys in 1958 at #3,559

Peak · boys
1919 · 48 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
522
since 1908

Metro over time

boys

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

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201915peak #973, 1919boys
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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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1958#3,5596
1957#3,0248
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1955#3,8865
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1951#3,7145
1950#3,3296
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1946#2,6908
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1944#3,4305
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1942#3,5605
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1938#3,1756
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1933#3,2686
1932#3,3616
1931#2,6519
1930#3,5926
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1928#2,04815
1927#2,52311
1926#1,66121
1925#2,75510
1924#1,96417
1923#1,35829
1922#1,47026
1921#1,47526
1920#1,27332
1919#97348
1918#1,17235
1917#1,01741
1916#1,24029
1915#1,08235
1914#1,22123
1913#1,17319
1912#2,0457
1911#98212
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1908#1,3735
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First appearance
1908

The first year at least five boys were named Metro! It came in at #1,373, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1908–1910, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Metro
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1958
  • Biggest jump: 199 spots in 1919 (#1,172#973)
  • Biggest drop: 1,063 spots in 1912 (#982#2,045)
Rise & fade · boys
11 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1908
  • Peaked 1919 at #973 (48 births)
  • Births halved by 1924, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1911–1919
Share of babies · boys
1 in 18,831
  • Highest: 1 in 18,831 boys born in 1911 were named Metro (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 353,735 boys born in 1958 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #973 in 1919, was only 1 in 20,419 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1910s
  • 47.7% of all boys named Metro (249) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s5#1,373 (1908)#1,373
1910s249#973 (1919)#1,212
1920s187#1,273 (1920)#1,836
1930s33#2,651 (1931)#3,209
1940s18#2,690 (1946)#3,227
1950s30#3,024 (1957)#3,502

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.

Metro in 1915

boys
#1,082
35 births · 1 in 24,245 boys

Top boys' names in 1915

  1. #1John47,576
  2. #2William38,563
  3. #3James33,773
  4. #4Robert28,737
  5. #5Joseph23,051
  6. #6George22,307
  7. #7Charles21,960
  8. #8Edward15,889
  9. #9Frank15,006
  10. #10Thomas11,490
  11. #1,082Metro35
More about 1915

boys

848,575 boys got a published name in 1915; 1 in 24,245 of them was named Metro, which outranked 75.4% of the 4,390 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Metro
  1. #1,068Normand36
  2. #1,068Stacy36
  3. #1,068Thad36
  4. #1,082Metro35
  5. #1,082Acie35
  6. #1,082Andre35
  7. #1,082Armin35
  8. #1,100Alf34
  9. #1,100Alonza34
  10. #1,100Bailey34

Tied with 17 names at #1,082; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1914
Risers
  1. 691Eston#1,687#996
  2. 565Estill#1,545#980
  3. 545Garth#1,260#715
  4. 474Hiroshi#1,342#868
  5. 439Domingo#1,101#662
Fallers
  1. 674Gilmore#986#1,660
  2. 667Barnett#933#1,600
  3. 526Rose#884#1,410
  4. 517Toivo#855#1,372
  5. 461Sampson#949#1,410

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

See the top 100 for 1915