Press

Last seen for boys in 1955 at #3,201

Peak · boys
1881 · 9 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
241
since 1880

Press over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Press has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201882peak #595, 1881boys
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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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1955#3,2017
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1953#3,7985
1952#3,7345
1951#2,6629
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1932#2,8498
1931#3,7635
1930
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1927#3,1518
1926#2,30213
1925#3,7416
1924#3,2608
1923#4,2395
1922
1921#2,9869
1920#3,2088
1919#3,1158
1918#2,8829
1917#2,7329
1916#3,1777
1915#3,3926
1914
1913
1912#2,5445
1911#1,2908
1910
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1908#1,3735
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1898
1897#8527
1896#8268
1895#1,0795
1894
1893
1892#1,0665
1891
1890#7398
1889#7228
1888#60911
1887
1886#8456
1885
1884#7647
1883
1882#8376
1881#5959
1880#6828
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Press was already there! It came in at #682, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1883, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Press
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1955
  • Biggest jump: 253 spots in 1896 (#1,079#826)
  • Biggest drop: 242 spots in 1882 (#595#837)
Rise & fade · boys
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1881 at #595 (9 births)
  • Births halved by 1883, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 10 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 1880–1882
Share of babies · boys
1 in 10,987
  • Highest: 1 in 10,987 boys born in 1888 were named Press (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 294,270 boys born in 1955 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #595 in 1881, was only 1 in 11,193 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 23.7% of all boys named Press (57) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s55#595 (1881)#722
1890s33#739 (1890)#912
1900s5#1,373 (1908)#1,373
1910s52#1,290 (1911)#2,733
1920s57#2,302 (1926)#3,270
1930s13#2,849 (1932)#3,306
1940s0
1950s26#2,662 (1951)#3,349

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.

Press in 1882

boys
#837
6 births · 1 in 18,948 boys

Top boys' names in 1882

  1. #1John9,557
  2. #2William9,298
  3. #3James5,892
  4. #4George5,193
  5. #5Charles5,091
  6. #6Frank3,176
  7. #7Joseph2,670
  8. #8Thomas2,610
  9. #9Henry2,579
  10. #10Robert2,500
  11. #837Press6
More about 1882

boys

113,686 boys got a published name in 1882; 1 in 18,948 of them was named Press, which outranked 23.8% of the 1,099 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 42.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Press
  1. #754Wheeler7
  2. #754Williams7
  3. #754Worth7
  4. #837Press6
  5. #837Addie6
  6. #837Alan6
  7. #837Alberto6
  8. #943Ab5
  9. #943Adolf5
  10. #943Alby5

Tied with 105 names at #837; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1881
Risers
  1. 467Clarance#866#399
  2. 429Webster#866#437
  3. 365Neil#781#416
  4. 352Cliff#866#514
  5. 352Elmore#866#514
Fallers
  1. 501Verne#442#943
  2. 483Newell#460#943
  3. 456Merritt#487#943
  4. 440Solon#503#943
  5. 395Almon#442#837

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

See the top 100 for 1882