General — #9866 US boys' name

What the Data Says About General

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,025 babies named General between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, General currently holds the #9866 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 105 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that General performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 698 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, General shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 280 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list General in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for General 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 4,025 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.