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 | — | |
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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 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Georgia#615 · 1 in 4,802
- Louisiana#691 · 1 in 4,876
- North Carolina#722 · 1 in 6,572
- Ohio#840 · 1 in 10,299
- Texas#1,500 · 1 in 18,518
Best ever in a state: #216 in Maine, 1972.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | #615 | 7 | 1 in 4,802 |
| Louisiana | #691 | 6 | 1 in 4,876 |
| North Carolina | #722 | 5 | 1 in 6,572 |
| Ohio | #840 | 7 | 1 in 10,299 |
| Texas | #1,500 | 6 | 1 in 18,518 |
| California | #1,969 | 6 | 1 in 27,221 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
| Arizona | — | — | — |
| Arkansas | — | — | — |
| Colorado | — | — | — |
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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 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 16,898 of them was named Buffy, which outranked 89.0% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,301Shaunte96
- #1,301Twyla96
- #1,301Yolonda96
- #1,314Buffy95
- #1,314Akilah95
- #1,314Corrina95
- #1,314Elvia95
- #1,323Brigette94
- #1,323Brigitte94
- #1,323Ivonne94
Tied with 8 names at #1,314; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.