Buck — #2470 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Buck

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,534 babies named Buck between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Buck currently holds the #2470 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 102 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Buck performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 759 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Buck shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 649 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Buck in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Buck in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,534 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.