Webb
Webb was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,837 among boys’ names; 1,658 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Webb by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Webb?
#5,837 among boys’ names, 2025
Webb fell from #5,728 in 2015 to #5,837 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 8.3 to 9.4 per million.
27 babies in 1927, the peak
Webb peaked in 1927, when 27 boys were given it, #1,466 among boys’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,837 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,639 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 19 | #5,237 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 25 | #4,289 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,614 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,409 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,100 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 25 | #4,212 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 19 | #5,096 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 19 | #5,111 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (130)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,728 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 19 | #5,050 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,303 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,377 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,544 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 15 | #6,015 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 6 | #12,403 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,739 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,961 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,609 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,879 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,535 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,298 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,804 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,662 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,431 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #8,069 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,473 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #10,269 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,784 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,377 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,593 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,439 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,175 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,763 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,917 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,694 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,204 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,955 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,945 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,216 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #6,032 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,255 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,440 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #5,075 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,973 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,462 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,217 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,394 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,568 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,221 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,531 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,528 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #4,028 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,410 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 17 | #2,032 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,347 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,680 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 15 | #2,194 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 22 | #1,721 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 25 | #1,630 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,010 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,976 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 18 | #1,885 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 25 | #1,548 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,005 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 21 | #1,680 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 19 | #1,742 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,220 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,112 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,071 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,267 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,440 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 16 | #1,807 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,402 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 18 | #1,728 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 15 | #1,897 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 15 | #1,889 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,709 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,164 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,191 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,297 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,712 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 21 | #1,550 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,991 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,094 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,690 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,009 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,092 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 18 | #1,897 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 27 | #1,466 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,429 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,745 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 19 | #1,890 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,809 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,824 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,763 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 19 | #1,882 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,446 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,706 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,436 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,589 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,780 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,540 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,437 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,613 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,186 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,415 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,670 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,339 | 0.04 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,413 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,300 | 0.04 |
| 1900 | 12 | #781 | 0.08 |
| 1899 | 8 | #851 | 0.08 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,118 | 0.05 |
| 1897 | 10 | #721 | 0.09 |
| 1896 | 9 | #821 | 0.08 |
| 1894 | 7 | #949 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 12 | #613 | 0.11 |
| 1892 | 7 | #949 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 6 | #990 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,105 | 0.05 |
| 1888 | 12 | #606 | 0.10 |
| 1887 | 7 | #818 | 0.07 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,100 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 8 | #763 | 0.07 |
| 1884 | 8 | #758 | 0.07 |
| 1882 | 11 | #609 | 0.10 |
| 1881 | 6 | #862 | 0.06 |
| 1880 | 12 | #567 | 0.11 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Webb a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Webb has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 130 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Webb: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Webb, and how old are they?
An estimated 829 Americans named Webb and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (50% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 10 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 889 people named Webb (36 women and girls, 853 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 792 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Webb
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 Webb and names like it
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- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Webb.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Webb alive today were born 2013-2025.
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