Buffy
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477 · Last seen for boys in 1971 at #4,375
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1972 · 319 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,306since 1951
Buffy over time
Rank among girls' names. Buffy has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | — | |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | — | |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | — | |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | — | |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | — | |
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | — | — | ||
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | — | |
| 2016 | — | — | ||
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| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | — | |
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| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | — | |
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| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | — | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | — | |
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| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | — | |
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| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | — | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 | — | |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,726 | 21 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,242 | 25 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,150 | 47 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,009 | 52 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,337 | 94 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,314 | 95 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,006 | 135 | — | |
| 1977 | #905 | 156 | — | |
| 1976 | #696 | 212 | — | |
| 1975 | #633 | 247 | — | |
| 1974 | #653 | 233 | — | |
| 1973 | #612 | 252 | — | |
| 1972 | #529 | 319 | — | |
| 1971 | #565 | 314 | #4,375 | 6 |
| 1970 | #614 | 282 | — | |
| 1969 | #634 | 243 | — | |
| 1968 | #620 | 239 | — | |
| 1967 | #793 | 157 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,453 | 24 | — | |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | — | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
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| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 | — | |
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| 1955 | #3,377 | 12 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,718 | 10 | — | |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | — | |
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| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Buffy! It came in at #5,414, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1951–1953, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Buffy is popular in 1971
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- West Virginia#272 · 1 in 1,629
- Iowa#304 · 1 in 2,143
- Georgia#306 · 1 in 1,849
- North Carolina#329 · 1 in 2,369
- Colorado#350 · 1 in 2,060
Best ever in a state: #216 in Maine, 1972.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #272 | 8 | 1 in 1,629 |
| Iowa | #304 | 9 | 1 in 2,143 |
| Georgia | #306 | 21 | 1 in 1,849 |
| North Carolina | #329 | 17 | 1 in 2,369 |
| Colorado | #350 | 8 | 1 in 2,060 |
| Kansas | #357 | 6 | 1 in 2,255 |
| Tennessee | #379 | 11 | 1 in 2,829 |
| Oregon | #415 | 5 | 1 in 2,670 |
| Alabama | #441 | 8 | 1 in 3,322 |
| Pennsylvania | #447 | 20 | 1 in 4,018 |
| Wisconsin | #470 | 6 | 1 in 5,151 |
| Louisiana | #472 | 9 | 1 in 3,239 |
| Michigan | #473 | 16 | 1 in 4,313 |
| Oklahoma | #488 | 5 | 1 in 3,530 |
| Minnesota | #496 | 5 | 1 in 5,415 |
| Indiana | #508 | 8 | 1 in 5,139 |
| Florida | #513 | 12 | 1 in 3,980 |
| Kentucky | #518 | 5 | 1 in 5,195 |
| Missouri | #523 | 7 | 1 in 4,884 |
| Ohio | #524 | 15 | 1 in 5,578 |
| Virginia | #603 | 5 | 1 in 6,611 |
| California | #645 | 28 | 1 in 5,300 |
| Illinois | #738 | 11 | 1 in 7,516 |
| Texas | #753 | 15 | 1 in 6,924 |
| New York | #940 | 11 | 1 in 11,383 |
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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 Buffy
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Biggest jump: 1,660 spots in 1967 (#2,453 → #793)
- Biggest drop: 209 spots in 1977 (#696 → #905)
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 1972 at #529 (319 births)
- Births halved by 1977, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 1967–1977
- Highest: 1 in 4,769 girls born in 1972 were named Buffy (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 270,032 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
- 67.9% of all girls named Buffy (2,245) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 38 | #3,377 (1955) | #4,712 |
| 1960s | 674 | #620 (1968) | #2,847 |
| 1970s | 2,245 | #529 (1972) | #753 |
| 1980s | 273 | #1,337 (1980) | #4,938 |
| 1990s | 9 | #8,501 (1990) | #8,501 |
| 2000s | 16 | #13,844 (2003) | #15,246 |
| 2010s | 16 | #11,615 (2017) | #11,792 |
| 2020s | 35 | #11,169 (2023) | #12,247 |
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.
Buffy in 1971
Top girls' names in 1971
Top boys' names in 1971
More about 1971
girls
1,663,823 girls got a published name in 1971; 1 in 5,299 of them was named Buffy, which outranked 94.1% of the 9,645 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,768,447 boys got a published name in 1971; 1 in 294,741 of them was named Buffy, which outranked 22.6% of the 5,655 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,963Zechariah7
- #3,963Zeferino7
- #3,963Zerrick7
- #4,375Buffy6
- #4,375Abelino6
- #4,375Absalom6
- #4,375Acey6
- #4,907Abdel5
- #4,907Abiel5
- #4,907Achille5
Tied with 531 names at #4,375; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.