Einar
Einar is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 37 births. Its best rank was 729th, in 1909.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 370.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191560 births
- Best rank
- #729in 1909
- Since 1893
- 1,516people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,516 boys have been named Einar in the United States since 1893, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 60 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1932, and the 1910s alone account for 23%. It has spent 18 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Einar | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 47 | |
| 1900s | 81 | |
| 1910s | 351 | |
| 1920s | 240 | |
| 1930s | 135 | |
| 1940s | 110 | |
| 1950s | 88 | |
| 1960s | 86 | |
| 1970s | 49 | |
| 1980s | 30 | |
| 1990s | 16 | |
| 2000s | 58 | |
| 2010s | 77 | |
| 2020s | 148 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Einar was the 777th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1915 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Einar
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Johniepeak 1920
- Cyrilpeak 1916
- Fentonpeak 1922
- Isadorepeak 1916
- Busterpeak 1918
- Vesterpeak 1922
- Romiepeak 1920
- Murrypeak 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.