Buckley vs Bucky
American parents have registered 1,084 Buckleys since 1880, against 1,027 Buckys. Buckley is still ahead, with 65 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Buckley Bucky
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 98 years in which either name was published, Bucky for 51 years and Buckley for 47 years. The lead changed hands 20 times.
- 1916–1931 Buckley ahead
- 1932–1986 Bucky ahead, apart from 4 short spells
- 2000–2025 Buckley ahead, apart from one short spell
13 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Buckley | Bucky | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,084 | 1,027 |
| Most in one year | 75 | 50 |
| Babies in 2025 | 65 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 880 | 760 |
| Median age today | 9 | 52 |
| Peak year | 2024 | 1979 |
| Best rank | 2,028th boys | 1,304th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 2,183rd | unranked |
| First recorded | 1916 | 1931 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 1,084 | 0 / 1,027 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Buckys alive today are over 52; half the Buckleys are over 9. That is 43 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Buckley and Bucky.