girls:
110 births since 1908
#5606 (2nd percentile)
boys:
10.8k births since 1880
#1115 (76th percentile)
overall:
11k births since 1880
#2514 (68th percentile)
The name Buford is the #2,514 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,958 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 67.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,115 (75.7% percentile) for all time with 10,848 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,606 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 110 births since 1908.
Buford has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1908 for girls). Birth data for Buford is available in 124 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (124 years for boys and 18 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Buford has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Buford reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 45.7% percentile (ranked #299) with 294 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 302 births per million (ranked 20.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Buford ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 0.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Buford reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #599) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 14 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1952.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Buford".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Buford. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Buford is pronounced as BYUE-ferd, which has 2 syllables.
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