Ac
Last seen for boys in 2014 at #9,642
- Peak · boys
- 1944 · 9 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 119since 1917
Ac over time
Rank among boys' names. Ac has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
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| 2014 | #9,642 | 7 |
| 2013 | #10,728 | 6 |
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| 2004 | #11,356 | 5 |
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| 1998 | #7,560 | 7 |
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| 1995 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,360 | 10 |
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| 1988 | #7,270 | 5 |
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| 1978 | #5,772 | 5 |
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| 1975 | #4,797 | 6 |
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| 1944 | #2,467 | 9 |
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| 1942 | #3,560 | 5 |
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| 1939 | #3,113 | 6 |
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| 1925 | #3,155 | 8 |
| 1924 | #3,505 | 7 |
| 1923 | #4,239 | 5 |
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| 1921 | #3,517 | 7 |
| 1920 | #3,208 | 8 |
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| 1917 | #3,217 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ac! It came in at #3,217, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1919, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Ac is popular in 1942
No state had 5 or more boys named Ac in 1942, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Ac
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2014
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1944 at #2,467 (9 births)
- Births halved by 1945, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 132,212 boys born in 1917 were named Ac (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 274,410 boys born in 2014 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,467 in 1944, was only 1 in 151,431 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.4% of all boys named Ac (35) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 7 | #3,217 (1917) | #3,217 |
| 1920s | 35 | #3,155 (1925) | #3,525 |
| 1930s | 6 | #3,113 (1939) | #3,113 |
| 1940s | 14 | #2,467 (1944) | #3,014 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 11 | #4,797 (1975) | #5,285 |
| 1980s | 5 | #7,270 (1988) | #7,270 |
| 1990s | 23 | #5,360 (1993) | #6,904 |
| 2000s | 5 | #11,356 (2004) | #11,356 |
| 2010s | 13 | #9,642 (2014) | #10,185 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ac in 1942
Top boys' names in 1942
More about 1942
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1,381,161 boys got a published name in 1942; 1 in 276,232 of them was named Ac, which outranked 12.0% of the 4,044 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 484 names at #3,560; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.