Squire
Squire was last recorded in 1997, when 5 babies were given it; 511 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Squire by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Squire?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,593, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1918, the peak
Squire peaked in 1918, when 17 boys were given it, #1,983 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 | #10,593 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,420 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,139 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,506 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,143 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,438 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,322 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,343 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,533 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,605 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5 | #4,583 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,883 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,303 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,272 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,666 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,284 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,306 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,197 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,891 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,839 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,507 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,916 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,851 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,076 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,841 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,143 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,988 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,510 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,938 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,245 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,818 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,477 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,174 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,569 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,615 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,181 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 10 | #2,978 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,473 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,214 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,352 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 17 | #1,983 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,925 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,832 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,356 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,617 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 10 | #1,928 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,027 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,278 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,656 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,040 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 9 | #781 | 0.08 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,016 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 8 | #854 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,106 | 0.05 |
| 1890 | 9 | #731 | 0.08 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,094 | 0.05 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,163 | 0.04 |
| 1887 | 7 | #813 | 0.07 |
| 1886 | 6 | #953 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 7 | #827 | 0.06 |
| 1884 | 12 | #567 | 0.10 |
| 1883 | 12 | #552 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 10 | #645 | 0.09 |
| 1881 | 8 | #694 | 0.08 |
| 1880 | 15 | #478 | 0.14 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Squire a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Squire has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Squire: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Squire, and how old are they?
An estimated 109 Americans named Squire and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (21% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 52 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 235 people named Squire (6 women and girls, 229 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 135 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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 spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 594 babies since 1880, Squire is the most given (86% 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 Squire
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 Squire and names like it
- Compare Squire and SquareBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sSquire peaked in 1918.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Squire.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Squire alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.