Pleas
Pleas was last recorded in 1988, when 5 babies were given it; 831 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pleas by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pleas?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,196, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1916, the peak
Pleas peaked in 1916, when 25 boys were given it, #1,407 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | #8,196 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,311 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,518 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,018 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,866 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,924 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,509 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,959 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,455 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,423 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 8 | #3,114 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 19 | #1,816 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,642 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,621 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,296 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,229 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,748 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,471 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,372 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,534 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,063 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,156 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,302 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 8 | #2,818 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,259 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,305 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,801 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 15 | #1,901 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,525 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,333 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,287 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,826 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,742 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,430 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,239 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,017 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,704 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,293 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,766 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,631 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,577 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 19 | #1,881 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,031 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,523 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 18 | #1,886 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,166 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,407 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,592 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,226 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 15 | #1,253 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,105 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,030 | 0.06 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,412 | 0.04 |
| 1907 | 11 | #852 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,215 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,064 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,038 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,266 | 0.04 |
| 1902 | 9 | #847 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 10 | #889 | 0.07 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,262 | 0.04 |
| 1897 | 7 | #915 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,076 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 9 | #784 | 0.08 |
| 1893 | 9 | #751 | 0.08 |
| 1892 | 10 | #741 | 0.08 |
| 1891 | 6 | #934 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,119 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 7 | #867 | 0.06 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,144 | 0.04 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,033 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 7 | #827 | 0.06 |
| 1885 | 9 | #684 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,085 | 0.04 |
| 1883 | 7 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1882 | 13 | #535 | 0.11 |
| 1881 | 10 | #582 | 0.10 |
| 1880 | 7 | #791 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Pleas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pleas has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pleas: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pleas, and how old are they?
An estimated 136 Americans named Pleas and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (16% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 65 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 204 people named Pleas (0 women and girls, 204 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 182 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above 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 spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,219 babies since 1880, Pleas is the most given (68% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Pleas
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 Pleas and names like it
- Compare Pleas and PlesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sPleas peaked in 1916.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pleas since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Pleas.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Pleas alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.