Pleasant

The name Pleasant is the #7,037 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 702 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 9.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,957 (13.7% percentile) for all time with 629 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,643 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 73 births since 1886.

Pleasant has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1886 for girls). Birth data for Pleasant is available in 65 out of the 134 years between 1880 and 2013 (63 years for boys and 13 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 Pleasant has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2013, 0.0% of babies named Pleasant were boys. Interestingly, until around 1992, the name was more popular for boys (91.0% boys from 1880 to 1991), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 1992 to 2013).

For boys, Pleasant reached its peak popularity in 1880, achieving the 5.9% percentile (ranked #191) with 144 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 144 births per million (ranked 5.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1962.

For girls, Pleasant reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #557) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1886, with 33 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2013.