Admiral

Last seen for boys in 2022 at #10,863

Peak · boys
1898 · 25 births
Debut · boys
25 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
263
since 1898

Admiral over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Admiral has never cracked the top 300 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201930peak #394, 1898boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2017#10,7756
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1982#5,6196
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1968#4,1365
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1956#3,2167
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1945#3,3385
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1932#2,6389
1931#3,0957
1930#3,0228
1929#3,2477
1928#3,0768
1927#2,12115
1926#3,3857
1925#2,58811
1924#3,2608
1923#2,9509
1922#3,2528
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1918#2,26013
1917#3,2177
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1904#1,2055
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1901#1,0585
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1899#54813
1898#39425
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First appearance
1898

The first year at least five boys were named Admiral! It came in at #394, and was given to 25 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1901–1913, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Admiral is popular in 1930

No state had 5 or more boys named Admiral in 1930, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Admiral
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2022
  • Biggest drop: 480 spots in 1901 (#578 → #1,058)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1898
  • Peaked 1898 at #394 (25 births)
  • Births halved by 1901, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1898–1900
Share of babies · boys
1 in 4,907
  • Highest: 1 in 4,907 boys born in 1898 were named Admiral (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 291,001 boys born in 2022 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 27.8% of all boys named Admiral (73) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s38#394 (1898)#471
1900s28#578 (1900)#947
1910s32#2,260 (1918)#3,006
1920s73#2,121 (1927)#2,985
1930s24#2,638 (1932)#2,918
1940s20#2,478 (1940)#3,016
1950s20#2,964 (1955)#3,326
1960s10#3,930 (1965)#4,033
1970s0——
1980s6#5,619 (1982)#5,619
1990s0——
2000s0——
2010s6#10,775 (2017)#10,775
2020s6#10,863 (2022)#10,863

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.

Admiral in 1930

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#3,022
8 births · 1 in 137,172 boys

Top boys' names in 1930

  1. #1Robert62,153
  2. #2James53,957
  3. #3John52,447
  4. #4William47,271
  5. #5Richard32,187
  6. #6Charles31,867
  7. #7Donald29,052
  8. #8George22,788
  9. #9Joseph20,981
  10. #10Edward17,352
  11. #3,022Admiral8
More about 1930

boys

1,097,378 boys got a published name in 1930; 1 in 137,172 of them was named Admiral, which outranked 33.5% of the 4,542 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Admiral
  1. #2,781Zebedee9
  2. #2,781Zenon9
  3. #2,781Zoltan9
  4. #3,022Admiral8
  5. #3,022Able8
  6. #3,022Achille8
  7. #3,022Agustus8
  8. #3,289Abdul7
  9. #3,289Ad7
  10. #3,289Addis7

Tied with 266 names at #3,022; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1929
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,094Derl#3,959 → #865
  2. ↑ 420Clive#1,378 → #958
  3. ↑ 380Farris#1,272 → #892
  4. ↑ 368Earlie#1,296 → #928
  5. ↑ 357Winton#1,272 → #915
Fallers
  1. ↓ 486Americo#729 → #1,215
  2. ↓ 433Enrico#995 → #1,428
  3. ↓ 371Eliseo#844 → #1,215
  4. ↓ 312Meyer#878 → #1,190
  5. ↓ 304Hilbert#869 → #1,173

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1930 →