Bucky
About 1,027 American babies have been named Bucky since 1931, most of them around 1979. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 760 Buckys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 52.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Bucky
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,027
- Estimated living today
- 760
- Median age today
- 52
- Peak year
- 1979
- Best rank
- 1,304th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1931
How old the living Buckys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,027 babies given the name since 1931, about 760 are alive — 74 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1973 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.
Notable Buckys
- Bucky Pizzarelli (1926–2020)American jazz guitarist
People named Bucky with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Bucky is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Bucky is most concentrated in Texas (11.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1979
The most popular boys’ names the year Bucky peaked:
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Bucky 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.