Buff — unisex name

What the Data Says About Buff

The Social Security Administration has registered 47 babies named Buff between 1952 and 1959, spanning 8 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Buff currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1959. The name reached its historical peak in 1955, when 15 babies received it in a single year. Buff is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 31 additional births since 1953.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Buff performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 47 births during that ten-year window.

No etymological entry is currently available for Buff 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 47 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.