girls:
382 births since 1986
#5334 (7th percentile)
boys:
51.3k births since 1884
#492 (89th percentile)
overall:
51.7k births since 1884
#1058 (86th percentile)
The name Tucker is the #1,058 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 51,720 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 86.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #492 (89.3% percentile) for all time with 51,338 births since 1884. For girls, it ranks #5,334 (6.7% percentile) for all time with 382 births since 1986.
Tucker first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for boys and 1986 for girls). Birth data for Tucker is available in 114 out of the 140 years between 1884 and 2023 (114 years for boys and 32 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 Tucker has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Tucker reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 81.5% percentile (ranked #171) with 1,140 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 1,182 births per million (ranked 81.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Tucker ranks #202 for boys (77.9% percentile) with 984 births per million, which is 83.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tucker reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #860) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). Despite a low point in 2019, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Tucker ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 70.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tucker".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Tucker is pronounced as TUH-ker, which has 2 syllables.
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