Warfield — boys' name
30 babies named Warfield in U.S. Social Security records since 1917, with the highest year being 1917. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
47% of everyone ever named Warfield was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Warfield in 1917 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Warfield
The Social Security Administration has registered 30 babies named Warfield between 1917 and 1957, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Warfield currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1957. The name reached its historical peak in 1917, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Warfield performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 14 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Warfield shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Warfield in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Warfield 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 30 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.
Warfield at a glance
Last recorded 1957Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Warfield popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1957–1917
- Peak year (1917)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 41 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1957.
30 total births across 41 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1917 with 8 births in a single year.
Warfield by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 14 births that decade — 47% of Warfield's all-time total
Warfield decade highlights
- Peak decade 14 births
- Runner-up 6 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Warfield's strongest decade
14 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 47% of all-time use.
Warfield by state
Where Warfield concentrates geographically — total births since 1917
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Kentucky | | 5 | 16.7% |
5 of 30 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Kentucky 16.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Kentucky accounts for 16.7% 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, 1917–1957 (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.