Moody
Last seen for boys in 2023 at #12,239
- Peak · boys
- 1893 · 10 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 746since 1882
Moody over time
Rank among boys' names. Moody has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | — | |
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| 2012 | — | |
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| 2010 | — | |
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| 1998 | — | |
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| 1993 | — | |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | — | |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | — | |
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| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | — | |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,282 | 7 |
| 1963 | #3,044 | 8 |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,652 | 6 |
| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #3,988 | 5 |
| 1958 | #3,033 | 8 |
| 1957 | #3,024 | 8 |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | — | |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,709 | 9 |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,364 | 6 |
| 1950 | #2,580 | 9 |
| 1949 | #3,298 | 6 |
| 1948 | #3,010 | 7 |
| 1947 | #2,862 | 8 |
| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | #3,338 | 5 |
| 1944 | #2,467 | 9 |
| 1943 | #2,563 | 9 |
| 1942 | #2,042 | 13 |
| 1941 | #1,997 | 13 |
| 1940 | #1,894 | 14 |
| 1939 | #2,050 | 12 |
| 1938 | #2,868 | 7 |
| 1937 | #2,680 | 8 |
| 1936 | #2,629 | 8 |
| 1935 | #1,929 | 14 |
| 1934 | #2,266 | 11 |
| 1933 | #2,214 | 11 |
| 1932 | #1,995 | 14 |
| 1931 | #2,328 | 11 |
| 1930 | #1,964 | 15 |
| 1929 | #1,611 | 21 |
| 1928 | #1,822 | 18 |
| 1927 | #1,603 | 23 |
| 1926 | #1,846 | 18 |
| 1925 | #1,583 | 23 |
| 1924 | #1,964 | 17 |
| 1923 | #1,696 | 21 |
| 1922 | #1,470 | 26 |
| 1921 | #1,703 | 21 |
| 1920 | #2,131 | 15 |
| 1919 | #1,481 | 24 |
| 1918 | #1,539 | 23 |
| 1917 | #1,815 | 17 |
| 1916 | #1,549 | 21 |
| 1915 | #1,553 | 20 |
| 1914 | #1,441 | 18 |
| 1913 | #1,803 | 10 |
| 1912 | #1,417 | 12 |
| 1911 | #1,387 | 7 |
| 1910 | #1,045 | 10 |
| 1909 | #1,277 | 6 |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | — | |
| 1906 | #1,253 | 5 |
| 1905 | #1,233 | 5 |
| 1904 | #1,205 | 5 |
| 1903 | #1,130 | 5 |
| 1902 | — | |
| 1901 | #858 | 7 |
| 1900 | #836 | 10 |
| 1899 | — | |
| 1898 | #1,002 | 6 |
| 1897 | #852 | 7 |
| 1896 | — | |
| 1895 | — | |
| 1894 | — | |
| 1893 | #650 | 10 |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | #963 | 5 |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | #679 | 8 |
| 1886 | #959 | 5 |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | #848 | 6 |
| 1883 | #892 | 5 |
| 1882 | #943 | 5 |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Moody! It came in at #943, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1885–1886, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Moody is popular in 1893
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Moody
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
- Biggest jump: 280 spots in 1887 (#959 → #679)
- Biggest drop: 150 spots in 1898 (#852 → #1,002)
- Debuted 1882
- Peaked 1893 at #650 (10 births)
- Births halved by 1894, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 1882–1884
- Highest: 1 in 11,232 boys born in 1893 were named Moody (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 342,115 boys born in 2023 (0.00%)
- 27.2% of all boys named Moody (203) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 29 | #679 (1887) | #864 |
| 1890s | 28 | #650 (1893) | #867 |
| 1900s | 43 | #836 (1900) | #1,113 |
| 1910s | 162 | #1,045 (1910) | #1,503 |
| 1920s | 203 | #1,470 (1922) | #1,743 |
| 1930s | 111 | #1,929 (1935) | #2,292 |
| 1940s | 84 | #1,894 (1940) | #2,608 |
| 1950s | 45 | #2,580 (1950) | #3,116 |
| 1960s | 26 | #3,044 (1963) | #3,504 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 5 | #6,721 (1986) | #6,721 |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 0 | — | — |
| 2020s | 10 | #12,239 (2023) | #12,285 |
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.
Moody in 1893
Top boys' names in 1893
More about 1893
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112,318 boys got a published name in 1893; 1 in 11,232 of them was named Moody, which outranked 44.9% of the 1,179 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 36.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).