Press
Press was last recorded in 1955, when 7 babies were given it; 241 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Press by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Press?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,424, in 1955; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1926, the peak
Press peaked in 1926, when 13 boys were given it, #2,398 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 7 | #3,424 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,221 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 5 | #4,129 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,808 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,041 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,200 | 4.8 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,378 | 7.1 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,398 | 11.7 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,091 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,437 | 7.1 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1923 | 5 | #4,744 | 4.6 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,164 | 8.2 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,424 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,317 | 8.2 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,046 | 8.9 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,900 | 9.7 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,437 | 7.9 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,735 | 7.1 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,826 | 11.6 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,362 | 35.4 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,549 | 32.4 |
| 1897 | 7 | #916 | 62.1 |
| 1896 | 8 | #879 | 66.9 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,208 | 42.6 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,215 | 41.0 |
| 1890 | 8 | #799 | 72.1 |
| 1889 | 8 | #774 | 72.3 |
| 1888 | 11 | #640 | 91.0 |
| 1886 | 6 | #939 | 54.2 |
| 1884 | 7 | #830 | 61.2 |
| 1882 | 6 | #920 | 52.8 |
| 1881 | 9 | #642 | 89.3 |
| 1880 | 8 | #728 | 72.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Press a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Press has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Press: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Press, and how old are they?
An estimated 17 Americans named Press and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 113 people named Press (10 women and girls, 103 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 24 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.7 times 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Press
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 Press and names like it
- Compare Press and ArchBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sPress peaked in 1926.
- The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Press.
- Names starting with PMost given first.