girls:
10 births since 1924
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1904
#3237 (29th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1904
#6340 (18th percentile)
The name Selwyn is the #6,340 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,403 recorded births since 1904. This represents the 18.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,237 (29.4% percentile) for all time with 1,393 births since 1904. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1924.
Selwyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1904 (1904 for boys and 1924 for girls). Birth data for Selwyn is available in 104 out of the 115 years between 1904 and 2018 (104 years for boys and 2 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 Selwyn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Selwyn reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #516) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 43 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2018.
For girls, Selwyn reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #610) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1961.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Selwyn".
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