Buster
Buster is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 238th, in 1909.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1918246 births
- Best rank
- #238in 1909
- Since 1880
- 8,161people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,161 boys have been named Buster in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 246 births.
The name has all but left use: 13 births in 2024, against 246 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 78 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Buster | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 103 | |
| 1890s | 141 | |
| 1900s | 467 | |
| 1910s | 1,793 | |
| 1920s | 1,822 | |
| 1930s | 1,103 | |
| 1940s | 812 | |
| 1950s | 694 | |
| 1960s | 355 | |
| 1970s | 257 | |
| 1980s | 179 | |
| 1990s | 141 | |
| 2000s | 99 | |
| 2010s | 131 | |
| 2020s | 64 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Buster was the 379th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Buster
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rubinpeak 1923
- Haskellpeak 1919
- Isadorepeak 1916
- Elmopeak 1920
- Johniepeak 1920
- Osbornepeak 1915
- Morrispeak 1918
- Irvingpeak 1918
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.