Governor
About 349 American babies have been named Governor since 1889, most of them around 1923. It has not appeared in the national data since 2011. About 70 Governors are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 75.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Governor
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 349
- Estimated living today
- 70
- Median age today
- 75
- Peak year
- 1923
- Best rank
- 1,941st
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1889
How old the living Governors are
born that year still alive today
Of the 349 babies given the name since 1889, about 70 are alive — 20 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1950 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.
Names of 1923
The most popular boys’ names the year Governor peaked:
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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.