Metro

Last seen for boys in 1958 at #3,559

Peak · boys
1919 · 48 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
522
since 1908

Metro over time

boys

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

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201912peak #973, 1919boys
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1958#3,5596
1957#3,0248
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1951#3,7145
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1933#3,2686
1932#3,3616
1931#2,6519
1930#3,5926
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1928#2,04815
1927#2,52311
1926#1,66121
1925#2,75510
1924#1,96417
1923#1,35829
1922#1,47026
1921#1,47526
1920#1,27332
1919#97348
1918#1,17235
1917#1,01741
1916#1,24029
1915#1,08235
1914#1,22123
1913#1,17319
1912#2,0457
1911#98212
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First appearance
1908

The first year at least five boys were named Metro! It came in at #1,373, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1908–1910, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Metro is popular in 1912

No state had 5 or more boys named Metro in 1912, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Metro
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1958
  • Biggest jump: 199 spots in 1919 (#1,172 → #973)
  • Biggest drop: 1,063 spots in 1912 (#982 → #2,045)
Rise & fade · boys
11 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1908
  • Peaked 1919 at #973 (48 births)
  • Births halved by 1924, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1911–1919
Share of babies · boys
1 in 18,831
  • Highest: 1 in 18,831 boys born in 1911 were named Metro (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 353,735 boys born in 1958 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #973 in 1919, was only 1 in 20,419 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1910s
  • 47.7% of all boys named Metro (249) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s5#1,373 (1908)#1,373
1910s249#973 (1919)#1,212
1920s187#1,273 (1920)#1,836
1930s33#2,651 (1931)#3,209
1940s18#2,690 (1946)#3,227
1950s30#3,024 (1957)#3,502

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.

Metro in 1912

boys
#2,045
7 births · 1 in 61,420 boys

Top boys' names in 1912

  1. #1John24,588
  2. #2William19,626
  3. #3James17,644
  4. #4Robert12,836
  5. #5Joseph12,062
  6. #6George11,734
  7. #7Charles11,070
  8. #8Edward7,936
  9. #9Frank7,912
  10. #10Thomas6,087
  11. #2,045Metro7
More about 1912

boys

429,942 boys got a published name in 1912; 1 in 61,420 of them was named Metro, which outranked 29.6% of the 2,905 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Metro
  1. #1,885Woodruff8
  2. #1,885Worley8
  3. #1,885Zachary8
  4. #2,045Metro7
  5. #2,045Addis7
  6. #2,045Adolphe7
  7. #2,045Agnew7
  8. #2,269Abie6
  9. #2,269Acy6
  10. #2,269Ada6

Tied with 223 names at #2,045; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1911
Risers
  1. ↑ 864Arlo#1,740 → #876
  2. ↑ 848Guss#1,740 → #892
  3. ↑ 805Courtney#1,740 → #935
  4. ↑ 805Erling#1,740 → #935
  5. ↑ 805Masao#1,740 → #935
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,688Rosendo#856 → #2,544
  2. ↓ 1,063Metro#982 → #2,045
  3. ↓ 1,057Lawyer#689 → #1,746
  4. ↓ 903Hymen#982 → #1,885
  5. ↓ 903Mathias#982 → #1,885

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

See the top 100 for 1912 →