Gilmore

Last seen for boys in 1994 at #8,800

Peak · boys
1914 · 32 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
753
since 1902

Gilmore over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Gilmore has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201915peak #986, 1914boys
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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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1994#8,8005
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1967#3,9665
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1963#3,0448
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1961#3,3567
1960#4,0385
1959#3,0378
1958#2,8189
1957#3,5526
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1955#2,13914
1954#2,7439
1953#3,1437
1952#3,0957
1951#3,3646
1950#2,43810
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1948#3,0107
1947#2,35611
1946#1,88415
1945#1,92613
1944#2,6338
1943#1,76417
1942#2,7128
1941#2,20711
1940#2,08112
1939#3,4805
1938#1,74116
1937#2,6808
1936#1,87214
1935#2,7198
1934#2,5639
1933#1,82915
1932#1,71618
1931#1,92715
1930#1,75318
1929#2,58910
1928#1,96016
1927#1,51625
1926#1,72020
1925#1,45126
1924#1,57724
1923#2,12315
1922#1,59123
1921#2,15215
1920#1,88518
1919#1,29730
1918#1,44625
1917#1,29128
1916#1,20630
1915#1,66018
1914#98632
1913#1,80310
1912#1,02320
1911#1,5376
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First appearance
1902

The first year at least five boys were named Gilmore! It came in at #1,137, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1902–1908, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Gilmore is popular in 1915

No state had 5 or more boys named Gilmore in 1915, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Gilmore
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1994
  • Biggest jump: 817 spots in 1914 (#1,803 → #986)
  • Biggest drop: 674 spots in 1915 (#986 → #1,660)
Rise & fade · boys
12 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1902
  • Peaked 1914 at #986 (32 births)
  • Births halved by 1921, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1914
Share of babies · boys
1 in 20,461
  • Highest: 1 in 20,461 boys born in 1914 were named Gilmore (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 386,406 boys born in 1994 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1910s
  • 26.4% of all boys named Gilmore (199) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s17#1,137 (1902)#1,222
1910s199#986 (1914)#1,361
1920s192#1,451 (1925)#1,856
1930s126#1,716 (1932)#2,228
1940s102#1,764 (1943)#2,286
1950s76#2,139 (1955)#2,925
1960s25#3,044 (1963)#3,601
1970s6#4,505 (1973)#4,505
1980s0——
1990s10#8,236 (1991)#8,518

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.

Gilmore in 1915

boys
#1,660
18 births · 1 in 47,143 boys

Top boys' names in 1915

  1. #1John47,576
  2. #2William38,563
  3. #3James33,773
  4. #4Robert28,737
  5. #5Joseph23,051
  6. #6George22,307
  7. #7Charles21,960
  8. #8Edward15,889
  9. #9Frank15,006
  10. #10Thomas11,490
  11. #1,660Gilmore18
More about 1915

boys

848,575 boys got a published name in 1915; 1 in 47,143 of them was named Gilmore, which outranked 62.2% of the 4,390 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Gilmore
  1. #1,600Tolbert19
  2. #1,600Ulyses19
  3. #1,600Uriah19
  4. #1,660Gilmore18
  5. #1,660Abbott18
  6. #1,660Aime18
  7. #1,660Alto18
  8. #1,707Aniello17
  9. #1,707Asher17
  10. #1,707Avon17

Tied with 46 names at #1,660; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1914
Risers
  1. ↑ 691Eston#1,687 → #996
  2. ↑ 565Estill#1,545 → #980
  3. ↑ 545Garth#1,260 → #715
  4. ↑ 474Hiroshi#1,342 → #868
  5. ↑ 439Domingo#1,101 → #662
Fallers
  1. ↓ 674Gilmore#986 → #1,660
  2. ↓ 667Barnett#933 → #1,600
  3. ↓ 526Rose#884 → #1,410
  4. ↓ 517Toivo#855 → #1,372
  5. ↓ 461Sampson#949 → #1,410

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

See the top 100 for 1915 →