Gender-neutral · #2833 in 2025
Ward
Ward: popularity and trends since 1880
- Rank
- #2833
- Born 2025
- 44
- Peak year
- 1899
Popularity, 1880–2025
per 100,000 boys born
Recent trend
Ward has held steady: its share of boys born has barely moved over the last 10 years. It now stands at 6% of its 1899 peak.
Boy or girl?
Over the last 10 years, 14% of children named Ward were recorded as girls and 86% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.
Sounds good with
Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.