Baby name

Buck

Boy

Rising name

1919 was its best year: 102 births, or 1 baby in 20,688. The momentum is recent: births are up 75% over the last five years, compared with the decade before. In 2025, it ranked No. 1992.

6,610births since 1880

1910sgeneration

No. 597rank at its peak, in 1919

Where babies named Buck are born

1919

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The darker the blue, the more common Buck is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

Where it is most popular

Compared with the national average, Buck is most common in Oklahoma (7.9 times), Texas (4.2) and North Carolina (3.6), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.

One letter apart

Beck 3,983
Huck 1,570
Bucky 1,027

Names from the same era

Haywood · Wilber · Dee · Verne · Mahlon · Ora

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