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Boy

Homer

Homer is a boy's name, a solidly familiar choice, that was at its most popular in the 1920s and is rarely chosen now.

GreekGreek "homeros"
EtymologyPossibly "hostage" or "one who does not see"
Births by decade
1900s
2,921
1910s
11,550
1920s
15,299
1930s
9,470
1940s
6,995
1950s
4,615
1960s
2,502
1970s
1,308
1980s
747
1990s
363
2000s
206
2010s
198
Peaked in the 1920s · 56,174 total U.S. births since 1900