Ad
Last seen for boys in 1940 at #3,130
- Peak · boys
- 1888 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 73since 1888
Ad over time
Rank among boys' names. Ad has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1940 | #3,130 | 6 |
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| 1930 | #3,289 | 7 |
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| 1926 | #3,385 | 7 |
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| 1924 | #3,867 | 6 |
| 1923 | #3,467 | 7 |
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| 1921 | #4,322 | 5 |
| 1920 | #4,286 | 5 |
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| 1917 | #3,217 | 7 |
| 1916 | #3,516 | 6 |
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| 1914 | #2,651 | 7 |
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| 1912 | #2,544 | 5 |
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| 1888 | #1,031 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ad! It came in at #1,031, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1888–1913, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ad is popular in 1888
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Ad
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1940
- Debuted 1888
- Peaked 1888 at #1,031 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1889, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,170 boys born in 1888 were named Ad (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 193,195 boys born in 1940 (0.00%)
- 41.1% of all boys named Ad (30) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #1,031 (1888) | #1,031 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 25 | #2,544 (1912) | #2,982 |
| 1920s | 30 | #3,385 (1926) | #3,865 |
| 1930s | 7 | #3,289 (1930) | #3,289 |
| 1940s | 6 | #3,130 (1940) | #3,130 |
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.
Ad in 1888
Top boys' names in 1888
More about 1888
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120,852 boys got a published name in 1888; 1 in 24,170 of them was named Ad, which outranked 12.4% of the 1,177 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 39.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 146 names at #1,031; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.