Male — boys' name

What the Data Says About Male

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,530 babies named Male between 1963 and 2015, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Male currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 223 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Male performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 1,017 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Male shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,039 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Mexico and Kansas. In total, SSA state-level files list Male in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Male 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 1,530 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.