Green
Green is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 254th, in 1886.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192748 births
- Best rank
- #254in 1886
- Since 1880
- 2,033people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,033 boys have been named Green in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1927, with 48 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 48 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1919, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 36 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Green | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 324 | |
| 1890s | 225 | |
| 1900s | 158 | |
| 1910s | 346 | |
| 1920s | 376 | |
| 1930s | 243 | |
| 1940s | 166 | |
| 1950s | 108 | |
| 1960s | 55 | |
| 1970s | 26 | |
| 1980s | 6 |
In 1927, its biggest year
Green was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1927 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1927.
Names that rose and fell with Green
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Edpeak 1959
- Charleypeak 1920
- Rollapeak 1916
- Pinkpeak 1919
- Gustpeak 1923
- Lempeak 1917
- Willpeak 1888
- Olepeak 1881
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.