Pleas
Pleas reached its high-water mark in 1916 at number 1,374, and has been recorded 831 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1988. About 140 Pleases are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 73.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Pleas
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 831
- Estimated living today
- 140
- Median age today
- 73
- Peak year
- 1916
- Best rank
- 1,374th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Pleases are
born that year still alive today
Of the 831 babies given the name since 1880, about 140 are alive — 17 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1952 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 Pleas is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1916
The most popular boys’ names the year Pleas peaked:
Related names
Pleas 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.