Boy
James
Carried by two Scottish and English kings who unified the two crowns in the early 1600s, James I and James VI. It is not as common as it was in the 1950s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is one of the most familiar names around in the registry.
HebrewSupplanter
HebrewForm of Jacob
Births by decade
1900s
62,527
1910s
276,401
1920s
518,516
1930s
550,289
1940s
798,225
1950s
846,042
1960s
687,905
1970s
447,779
1980s
359,034
1990s
245,564
2000s
163,491
2010s
112,726
Peaked in the 1950s · 5,068,499 total U.S. births since 1900