Pastor — boys' name
146 babies named Pastor in U.S. Social Security records since 1929, with the highest year being 1981. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
36% of everyone ever named Pastor was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Pastor in 1981 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Pastor
The Social Security Administration has registered 146 babies named Pastor between 1929 and 2008, spanning 80 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Pastor currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Pastor performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 53 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Pastor shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Pastor in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Pastor 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 146 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.
Pastor at a glance
Last recorded 2008Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Pastor popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2008–1929
- Peak year (1981)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 80 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2008.
146 total births across 80 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1981 with 8 births in a single year.
Pastor by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 53 births that decade — 36% of Pastor's all-time total
Pastor decade highlights
- Peak decade 53 births
- Runner-up 29 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Pastor's strongest decade
53 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 36% of all-time use.
Pastor by state
Where Pastor concentrates geographically — total births since 1929
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 3.4% |
5 of 146 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 3.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 3.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1929–2008 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.