Governor
Governor was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 349 Americans have been recorded with it between 1889 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Governor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Governor?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,945, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1923, the peak
Governor peaked in 1923, when 17 boys were given it, #1,975 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #12,945 | 2.6 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,151 | 4.3 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,275 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,848 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,238 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,504 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,503 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,884 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,684 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,878 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 6 | #3,500 | 3.3 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,128 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 7 | #2,962 | 5.1 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,627 | 6.3 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,795 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,256 | 9.0 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,766 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,752 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,082 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,857 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,205 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,735 | 8.7 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,354 | 10.9 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,210 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,734 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,000 | 8.0 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,123 | 13.4 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,721 | 9.7 |
| 1923 | 17 | #1,975 | 15.5 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,687 | 10.1 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,699 | 10.0 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,380 | 12.2 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,757 | 10.2 |
| 1918 | 9 | #2,966 | 8.9 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,827 | 9.7 |
| 1916 | 9 | #2,801 | 10.1 |
| 1915 | 8 | #2,926 | 9.4 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,461 | 7.6 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,798 | 20.9 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,484 | 30.9 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,223 | 39.9 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,139 | 41.0 |
| 1889 | 7 | #836 | 63.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Governor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Governor has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Governor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Governor, and how old are they?
An estimated 67 Americans named Governor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 157 people named Governor (0 women and girls, 157 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 91 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Governor
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 Governor and names like it
- Compare Governor and ChalmersBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sGovernor peaked in 1923.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Governor.
- Names starting with GMost given first.