Spurgeon
Spurgeon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 634th, in 1892.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191845 births
- Best rank
- #634in 1892
- Since 1880
- 1,445people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,445 boys have been named Spurgeon in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 45 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 45 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1910s alone account for 21%. It has spent 15 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Spurgeon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 25 | |
| 1890s | 67 | |
| 1900s | 46 | |
| 1910s | 304 | |
| 1920s | 303 | |
| 1930s | 176 | |
| 1940s | 167 | |
| 1950s | 135 | |
| 1960s | 76 | |
| 1970s | 63 | |
| 1980s | 16 | |
| 1990s | 12 | |
| 2000s | 5 | |
| 2010s | 18 | |
| 2020s | 32 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Spurgeon was outside the top 1,000 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 Spurgeon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Worthpeak 1918
- Aloysiuspeak 1916
- Ewingpeak 1925
- Urbanpeak 1924
- Ludwigpeak 1916
- Oralpeak 1917
- Waldopeak 1915
- Earlepeak 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.