Butch
Butch was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 3,423 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,410 Americans named Butch and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 52 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Butch by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Butch?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,061, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
139 babies in 1956, the peak
Butch peaked in 1956, when 139 boys were given it, #642 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #10,061 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,818 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,080 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,437 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,446 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 6 | #10,983 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,486 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,941 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,557 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,240 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #12,799 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,032 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,854 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,187 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,039 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,740 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,736 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,713 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,532 | 4.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,605 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,077 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 12 | #4,907 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,083 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,827 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,837 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,009 | 11.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,132 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,064 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 18 | #3,214 | 9.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,371 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,568 | 11.2 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,695 | 10.3 |
| 1985 | 19 | #2,608 | 10.3 |
| 1984 | 15 | #2,977 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 27 | #1,964 | 15.1 |
| 1982 | 30 | #1,858 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 29 | #1,901 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,628 | 10.1 |
| 1979 | 36 | #1,601 | 20.9 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,681 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 35 | #1,574 | 21.3 |
| 1976 | 32 | #1,647 | 20.4 |
| 1975 | 29 | #1,711 | 18.6 |
| 1974 | 40 | #1,354 | 25.4 |
| 1973 | 36 | #1,403 | 23.1 |
| 1972 | 23 | #1,874 | 14.2 |
| 1971 | 28 | #1,673 | 15.8 |
| 1970 | 41 | #1,298 | 22.1 |
| 1969 | 31 | #1,445 | 17.3 |
| 1968 | 43 | #1,148 | 24.7 |
| 1967 | 37 | #1,230 | 21.2 |
| 1966 | 50 | #1,029 | 28.0 |
| 1965 | 62 | #935 | 33.3 |
| 1964 | 75 | #882 | 37.6 |
| 1963 | 95 | #781 | 46.8 |
| 1962 | 110 | #729 | 53.2 |
| 1961 | 118 | #703 | 55.6 |
| 1960 | 119 | #715 | 55.8 |
| 1959 | 116 | #711 | 54.3 |
| 1958 | 124 | #682 | 58.4 |
| 1957 | 122 | #691 | 56.6 |
| 1956 | 139 | #642 | 65.7 |
| 1955 | 116 | #679 | 56.3 |
| 1954 | 100 | #721 | 49.0 |
| 1953 | 115 | #660 | 58.3 |
| 1952 | 124 | #630 | 63.8 |
| 1951 | 115 | #655 | 61.1 |
| 1950 | 118 | #637 | 65.9 |
| 1949 | 108 | #661 | 60.9 |
| 1948 | 89 | #708 | 50.7 |
| 1947 | 105 | #671 | 57.4 |
| 1946 | 80 | #731 | 49.3 |
| 1945 | 63 | #775 | 46.8 |
| 1944 | 59 | #815 | 43.3 |
| 1943 | 49 | #958 | 34.3 |
| 1942 | 36 | #1,141 | 26.1 |
| 1941 | 30 | #1,212 | 24.4 |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,288 | 23.3 |
| 1939 | 14 | #1,888 | 12.6 |
| 1938 | 13 | #1,994 | 11.7 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,514 | 8.4 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,613 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,716 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,012 | 6.8 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,284 | 4.5 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,237 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Butch a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Butch has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 86 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Butch: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Butch, and how old are they?
2,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 71% of the 3,423 Americans ever recorded as Butch. The median Butch alive today is 65 years old; half are between 52 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 2,292 people named Butch (28 women and girls, 2,264 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,651 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 110 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,380 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 487 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 276 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 107 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 50 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Butch born?
The states with the most babies named Butch are Texas, California and Georgia, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 207 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 203 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 108 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 83 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 71 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 63 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 61 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 53 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 46 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 37 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Butch is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Butch is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1919 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Butch with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Butch
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Butch and names like it
- Compare Butch and GarryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sButch peaked in 1956.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Butch since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Butch.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Butch alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.