Buford
Buford is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 311th, in 1910.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1921334 births
- Best rank
- #311in 1910
- Since 1880
- 10,848people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,848 boys have been named Buford in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 334 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 334 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 82 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Buford | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 69 | |
| 1890s | 156 | |
| 1900s | 277 | |
| 1910s | 1,737 | |
| 1920s | 2,759 | |
| 1930s | 1,935 | |
| 1940s | 1,652 | |
| 1950s | 963 | |
| 1960s | 587 | |
| 1970s | 375 | |
| 1980s | 203 | |
| 1990s | 88 | |
| 2000s | 32 | |
| 2010s | 10 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Buford was the 318th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Buford
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Haroldpeak 1924
- Milfordpeak 1921
- Olenpeak 1922
- Elwinpeak 1923
- Maynardpeak 1922
- Merlepeak 1925
- Merrillpeak 1926
- Clovispeak 1917
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.