Green
Green was last recorded in 1984, when 6 babies were given it; 2,033 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Green by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Green?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,841, in 1984; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 1927, the peak
Green peaked in 1927, when 48 boys were given it, #1,017 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 6 | #5,841 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,721 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,639 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,467 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,998 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,082 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,078 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,269 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,742 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,607 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 13 | #2,361 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,465 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,377 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,896 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 15 | #2,126 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,650 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,271 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 11 | #2,446 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,424 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,089 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,255 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,268 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,439 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,744 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 14 | #1,980 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 14 | #1,880 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,842 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,380 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 14 | #1,986 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 14 | #1,942 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,449 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,474 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,498 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,597 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,519 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,618 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 32 | #1,179 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,342 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,338 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,437 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 35 | #1,204 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,225 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,467 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 48 | #1,017 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 35 | #1,229 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,311 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 37 | #1,195 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 38 | #1,163 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 42 | #1,092 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 42 | #1,093 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 44 | #1,056 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 42 | #1,057 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 43 | #1,033 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 42 | #1,008 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 47 | #929 | 0.05 |
| 1915 | 37 | #1,057 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 46 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1913 | 32 | #864 | 0.06 |
| 1912 | 22 | #977 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 15 | #874 | 0.07 |
| 1910 | 20 | #664 | 0.10 |
| 1909 | 15 | #732 | 0.09 |
| 1908 | 10 | #908 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 10 | #898 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 17 | #573 | 0.13 |
| 1905 | 15 | #623 | 0.11 |
| 1904 | 13 | #661 | 0.10 |
| 1903 | 17 | #535 | 0.14 |
| 1902 | 22 | #445 | 0.18 |
| 1901 | 11 | #656 | 0.10 |
| 1900 | 28 | #425 | 0.19 |
| 1899 | 19 | #430 | 0.18 |
| 1898 | 28 | #367 | 0.23 |
| 1897 | 12 | #626 | 0.11 |
| 1896 | 25 | #392 | 0.21 |
| 1895 | 17 | #495 | 0.14 |
| 1894 | 22 | #403 | 0.19 |
| 1893 | 23 | #375 | 0.20 |
| 1892 | 28 | #363 | 0.23 |
| 1891 | 18 | #421 | 0.18 |
| 1890 | 33 | #300 | 0.30 |
| 1889 | 21 | #394 | 0.19 |
| 1888 | 32 | #317 | 0.26 |
| 1887 | 31 | #300 | 0.31 |
| 1886 | 45 | #254 | 0.41 |
| 1885 | 32 | #303 | 0.30 |
| 1884 | 31 | #314 | 0.27 |
| 1883 | 33 | #286 | 0.32 |
| 1882 | 27 | #337 | 0.24 |
| 1881 | 33 | #274 | 0.33 |
| 1880 | 39 | #271 | 0.35 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Green a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Green has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 91 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Green: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Green, and how old are they?
An estimated 242 Americans named Green and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (12% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 65 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 995 people named Green (328 women and girls, 667 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 334 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 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).
Where are babies named Green born?
The states with the most babies named Green are Kentucky, Georgia and Mississippi, with 74% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 170 | not ranked | 5.2× |
| Georgia | 114 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Mississippi | 84 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Alabama | 79 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Texas | 34 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 7 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Green is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Green is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 5.2 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 Green with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,623 babies since 1880, Green is the most given (78% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Green
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 Green and names like it
- Compare Green and GerrenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sGreen peaked in 1927.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Green since 1910.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Green.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Green alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.