Pistol — boys' name

What the Data Says About Pistol

The Social Security Administration has registered 63 babies named Pistol between 2010 and 2017, spanning 8 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Pistol currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Pistol is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 19 additional births since 2013.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pistol performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 63 births during that ten-year window.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pistol 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 63 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.