Lawyer
Lawyer is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 562nd, in 1886.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 193031 births
- Best rank
- #562in 1886
- Since 1880
- 1,021people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,021 boys have been named Lawyer in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1930, with 31 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 31 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1910s alone account for 17%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Lawyer | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 35 | |
| 1890s | 35 | |
| 1900s | 66 | |
| 1910s | 174 | |
| 1920s | 173 | |
| 1930s | 165 | |
| 1940s | 129 | |
| 1950s | 103 | |
| 1960s | 53 | |
| 1970s | 23 | |
| 1980s | 6 | |
| 1990s | 28 | |
| 2000s | 19 | |
| 2020s | 12 |
In 1930, its biggest year
Lawyer was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1930 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1930.
Names that rose and fell with Lawyer
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Algiepeak 1919
- Brownpeak 1918
- Elziepeak 1917
- Lonzopeak 1919
- Colliepeak 1915
- Alcidepeak 1924
- Websterpeak 1915
- Freemanpeak 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.