Morris
Morris is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 86 births. Its best rank was 82nd, in 1912.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 860.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19181,679 births
- Best rank
- #82in 1912
- Since 1880
- 70,909people given the name
The story in the numbers
70,909 boys have been named Morris in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 1,679 births — 0.17% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 86 births in 2024, against 1,679 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 115 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 13 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Morris | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 895 | |
| 1890s | 1,234 | |
| 1900s | 2,059 | |
| 1910s | 12,484 | |
| 1920s | 14,141 | |
| 1930s | 9,113 | |
| 1940s | 8,805 | |
| 1950s | 8,323 | |
| 1960s | 5,355 | |
| 1970s | 2,793 | |
| 1980s | 1,956 | |
| 1990s | 1,287 | |
| 2000s | 996 | |
| 2010s | 1,000 | |
| 2020s | 468 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Morris was the 101st 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 Morris
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Miltonpeak 1920
- Lesterpeak 1918
- Alphonsepeak 1918
- Wilburpeak 1918
- Orvillepeak 1920
- Edmundpeak 1923
- Virgilpeak 1921
- Wilfredpeak 1920
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.