Major — #580 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Major

The Social Security Administration has registered 21,255 babies named Major between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Major currently holds the #580 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 1,042 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Major performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 7,613 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Major shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,847 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Major in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Major 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 21,255 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.