Sanders
Sanders is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 567th, in 1893.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 195147 births
- Best rank
- #567in 1893
- Since 1880
- 2,377people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,377 boys have been named Sanders in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1951, with 47 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1949, and the 1950s alone account for 12%. It has spent 22 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Sanders | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 77 | |
| 1890s | 64 | |
| 1900s | 81 | |
| 1910s | 223 | |
| 1920s | 265 | |
| 1930s | 227 | |
| 1940s | 260 | |
| 1950s | 282 | |
| 1960s | 165 | |
| 1970s | 128 | |
| 1980s | 113 | |
| 1990s | 130 | |
| 2000s | 124 | |
| 2010s | 161 | |
| 2020s | 77 |
In 1951, its biggest year
Sanders was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1951 were James, Robert, John, Michael and David. See all of 1951.
Names that rose and fell with Sanders
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Napoleonpeak 1926
- Amospeak 1922
- Luciuspeak 2022
- Hardypeak 1921
- Benpeak 1918
- Luciouspeak 1926
- Alonzapeak 1961
- Hendersonpeak 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.