Buel
Buel is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 813th, in 1898.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192265 births
- Best rank
- #813in 1898
- Since 1888
- 1,135people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,135 boys have been named Buel in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 65 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 65 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 35%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1922, its biggest year
Buel was the 850th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Buel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Orlandpeak 1922
- Norwoodpeak 1921
- Cletuspeak 1922
- Vergilpeak 1920
- Clellpeak 1924
- Elwynpeak 1924
- Orvilpeak 1921
- Foypeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.