Guilford
Guilford was last recorded in 1973, when 5 babies were given it; 589 Americans have been recorded with it between 1885 and 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Guilford by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Guilford?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,378, in 1973; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1923, the peak
Guilford peaked in 1923, when 22 boys were given it, #1,664 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 5 | #5,378 | 3.2 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,701 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,129 | 2.7 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,295 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,726 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,332 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,306 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,827 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 8 | #3,005 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,756 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 7 | #3,185 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,065 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 11 | #2,388 | 6.2 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,508 | 5.7 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,747 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,313 | 3.7 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,849 | 5.2 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,723 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,065 | 4.9 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,316 | 8.0 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,257 | 9.0 |
| 1940 | 8 | #2,746 | 6.9 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,106 | 10.8 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,386 | 9.0 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,129 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,517 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,311 | 10.6 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,859 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 16 | #1,875 | 15.3 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,379 | 10.6 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,116 | 12.8 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,498 | 10.2 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,206 | 12.6 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,230 | 12.4 |
| 1926 | 17 | #1,938 | 15.3 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,703 | 18.8 |
| 1924 | 20 | #1,803 | 17.7 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,664 | 20.1 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,085 | 14.7 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,098 | 14.5 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,263 | 13.2 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,009 | 16.3 |
| 1918 | 17 | #1,941 | 16.8 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,774 | 19.4 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,615 | 11.2 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,735 | 20.0 |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,571 | 24.4 |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,226 | 35.1 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,667 | 23.3 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,326 | 35.4 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,475 | 32.4 |
| 1890 | 8 | #775 | 72.1 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,000 | 46.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Guilford a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Guilford has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Guilford: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Guilford, and how old are they?
An estimated 111 Americans named Guilford and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (19% of everyone recorded); the median is 76 years old and half are between 71 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 234 people named Guilford (0 women and girls, 234 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 153 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 Guilford
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 Guilford and names like it
- Compare Guilford and BurgessBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sGuilford peaked in 1923.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Guilford since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Guilford.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Guilford alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.