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Worth

Worth reached its high-water mark in 1918 at number 796, and has been recorded 2,204 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 6,446th. About 650 Worths are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 57.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Worth

By the numbers

Total US births
2,204
Estimated living today
650
Median age today
57
Peak year
1918
Best rank
796th
Rank in 2025
6,446th
First recorded
1880

How old the living Worths are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,204 babies given the name since 1880, about 650 are alive — 29 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1968 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Worth is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Worth is most concentrated in North Carolina (31.1×), Texas (1.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1918

The most popular boys’ names the year Worth peaked:

All the names of 1918

Related names

Worth against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.