Meaning not yet researched.
Buford: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #311 in 1910.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #311 in 1910; #10,884 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Buford in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,884 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1910, at #311.
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Buford: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #311 in 1910 · most boys in one year: 334 (1921).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Buford, making it the 10,884th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #311, reached in 1910. The most boys given the name in a single year was 334, in 1921. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #599 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Buford in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 11 babies. In all, 10,964 US babies have been given the name, 1.0% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,799 babies named Buford.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 16 US boys were named Buford; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 6. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Bufford, Bueford and Bufard are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bufford (507), Bueford (265), Bufard (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Buford in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 6 | #10,884 |
| 2023 | — | — | 5 | #12,533 |
| 2016 | — | — | 5 | #12,487 |
| 2012 | — | — | 5 | #12,563 |
| 2006 | — | — | 6 | #10,858 |
| 2005 | — | — | 10 | #7,193 |
| 2003 | — | — | 7 | #8,790 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #6,922 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #7,973 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #8,611 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,268 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,238 |
| 1995 | — | — | 9 | #5,986 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #7,898 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,738 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #7,535 |
| 1991 | — | — | 12 | #4,522 |
| 1990 | — | — | 17 | #3,483 |
| 1989 | — | — | 13 | #4,046 |
| 1988 | — | — | 14 | #3,545 |
| 1987 | — | — | 15 | #3,215 |
| 1986 | — | — | 22 | #2,436 |
| 1985 | — | — | 24 | #2,233 |
| 1984 | — | — | 16 | #2,838 |
| 1983 | — | — | 18 | #2,593 |
| 1982 | — | — | 32 | #1,779 |
| 1981 | — | — | 19 | #2,504 |
| 1980 | — | — | 30 | #1,859 |
| 1979 | — | — | 39 | #1,512 |
| 1978 | — | — | 31 | #1,726 |
| 1977 | — | — | 35 | #1,573 |
| 1976 | — | — | 33 | #1,614 |
| 1975 | — | — | 46 | #1,259 |
| 1974 | — | — | 36 | #1,439 |
| 1973 | — | — | 31 | #1,551 |
| 1972 | — | — | 25 | #1,776 |
| 1971 | — | — | 46 | #1,216 |
| 1970 | — | — | 53 | #1,133 |
| 1969 | — | — | 56 | #1,027 |
| 1968 | — | — | 47 | #1,084 |
| 1967 | — | — | 45 | #1,104 |
| 1966 | — | — | 41 | #1,165 |
| 1965 | — | — | 67 | #900 |
| 1964 | — | — | 62 | #967 |
| 1963 | — | — | 54 | #1,028 |
| 1962 | — | — | 65 | #940 |
| 1961 | — | — | 80 | #855 |
| 1960 | — | — | 70 | #905 |
| 1959 | — | — | 65 | #953 |
| 1958 | — | — | 67 | #928 |
| 1957 | — | — | 79 | #845 |
| 1956 | — | — | 108 | #708 |
| 1955 | — | — | 93 | #756 |
| 1954 | — | — | 97 | #733 |
| 1953 | — | — | 108 | #687 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,643 | 109 | #660 |
| 1951 | — | — | 107 | #675 |
| 1950 | — | — | 130 | #599 |
| 1949 | — | — | 148 | #551 |
| 1948 | — | — | 143 | #560 |
| 1947 | — | — | 166 | #526 |
| 1946 | — | — | 145 | #534 |
| 1945 | — | — | 129 | #525 |
| 1944 | — | — | 172 | #464 |
| 1943 | — | — | 198 | #451 |
| 1942 | — | — | 182 | #457 |
| 1941 | — | — | 183 | #432 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,438 | 186 | #427 |
| 1939 | — | — | 164 | #446 |
| 1938 | — | — | 196 | #405 |
| 1937 | — | — | 193 | #406 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,413 | 160 | #445 |
| 1935 | — | — | 174 | #424 |
| 1934 | — | — | 211 | #375 |
| 1933 | — | — | 169 | #418 |
| 1932 | — | — | 228 | #368 |
| 1931 | — | — | 200 | #399 |
| 1930 | — | — | 240 | #371 |
| 1929 | — | — | 230 | #379 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,255 | 240 | #380 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,900 | 242 | #377 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,075 | 264 | #359 |
| 1925 | — | — | 283 | #347 |
| 1924 | — | — | 304 | #334 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,027 | 279 | #352 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,059 | 305 | #335 |
| 1921 | — | — | 334 | #318 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,082 | 278 | #354 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,323 | 258 | #357 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,929 | 252 | #370 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,687 | 249 | #353 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,511 | 244 | #342 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,366 | 209 | #372 |
| 1914 | — | — | 165 | #368 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,875 | 136 | #357 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,184 | 108 | #370 |
| 1911 | — | — | 53 | #390 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,180 | 63 | #311 |
| 1909 | — | — | 36 | #408 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,156 | 47 | #326 |
| 1907 | — | — | 25 | #466 |
| 1906 | — | — | 29 | #401 |
| 1905 | — | — | 37 | #329 |
| 1904 | — | — | 25 | #417 |
| 1903 | — | — | 24 | #403 |
| 1902 | — | — | 14 | #592 |
| 1901 | — | — | 17 | #471 |
| 1900 | — | — | 23 | #478 |
| 1899 | — | — | 18 | #440 |
| 1898 | — | — | 18 | #488 |
| 1897 | — | — | 15 | #518 |
| 1896 | — | — | 17 | #505 |
| 1895 | — | — | 20 | #439 |
| 1894 | — | — | 17 | #483 |
| 1893 | — | — | 12 | #575 |
| 1892 | — | — | 14 | #551 |
| 1891 | — | — | 12 | #526 |
| 1890 | — | — | 13 | #539 |
| 1888 | — | — | 13 | #558 |
| 1887 | — | — | 9 | #637 |
| 1886 | — | — | 7 | #773 |
| 1884 | — | — | 10 | #620 |
| 1883 | — | — | 10 | #603 |
| 1881 | — | — | 9 | #604 |
| 1880 | — | — | 11 | #575 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).