Buffie
Last seen for girls in 1985 at #9,307
- Peak · girls
- 1968 · 90 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 869since 1954
Buffie over time
Rank among girls' names. Buffie 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.
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| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
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| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 |
| 1981 | #4,005 | 19 |
| 1980 | #3,215 | 26 |
| 1979 | #3,333 | 24 |
| 1978 | #2,741 | 30 |
| 1977 | #2,780 | 29 |
| 1976 | #1,794 | 52 |
| 1975 | #1,527 | 66 |
| 1974 | #1,598 | 59 |
| 1973 | #1,450 | 66 |
| 1972 | #1,289 | 79 |
| 1971 | #1,350 | 79 |
| 1970 | #1,212 | 92 |
| 1969 | #1,290 | 76 |
| 1968 | #1,123 | 90 |
| 1967 | #1,659 | 47 |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 |
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| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Buffie! It came in at #5,753, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1954–1965, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Buffie is popular in 1972
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#487 · 1 in 3,841
- Georgia#636 · 1 in 5,997
- Ohio#991 · 1 in 14,890
- Texas#1,282 · 1 in 16,061
- California#1,447 · 1 in 19,582
Best ever in a state: #462 in Mississippi, 1971.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| South Carolina | #487 | 5 | 1 in 3,841 |
| Georgia | #636 | 6 | 1 in 5,997 |
| Ohio | #991 | 5 | 1 in 14,890 |
| Texas | #1,282 | 6 | 1 in 16,061 |
| California | #1,447 | 7 | 1 in 19,582 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Buffie
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1985
- Debuted 1954
- Peaked 1968 at #1,123 (90 births)
- Births halved by 1977, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,227 girls born in 1968 were named Buffie (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 286,805 girls born in 1985 (0.00%)
- 66.3% of all girls named Buffie (576) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 5 | #5,753 (1954) | #5,753 |
| 1960s | 221 | #1,123 (1968) | #2,235 |
| 1970s | 576 | #1,212 (1970) | #1,907 |
| 1980s | 67 | #3,215 (1980) | #6,262 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Buffie in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 19,256 of them was named Buffie, which outranked 86.7% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,280Necole80
- #1,280Rayna80
- #1,280Tisa80
- #1,289Buffie79
- #1,289Cami79
- #1,289Carisa79
- #1,289Catharine79
- #1,303Edward78
- #1,303Kenneth78
- #1,303Keya78
Tied with 13 names at #1,289; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.