COMPILED FROM THE FEDERAL REGISTERS, 1880 TO THE PRESENT
THE ENDANGERED NAMES LIST
American first names, tracked to the federal reporting line.

FROM THE REGISTER — CRITICALLY LOW

Millard
A male given name · United States

FIRST ABSENCE IN ITS HISTORY, 2023–2024 — RETURNED 2025 WITH 10

Millard (M): reported births per year0100200300400500188019001920194019601980200020202025FEDERAL REPORTING LINE (5)PEAK 478 — 1922
Reported births per year, 1880–2025. The y-axis starts at zero. Years below the reporting line appear as gaps, not zeros.

The thirteenth president's name recorded its first-ever absence in 2023, and returned. The record holds 16,743 of them, 478 in 1922 alone. In 2025 there were 10. The two missing years, 2023 and 2024, are the only absences in a record that begins in 1880.

REGISTER EXTRACT
First reported1880
Last reported2025 — 10 births
Peak1922 — 478 births
Total recorded, 1880–202516,743
Years above the line140 of a possible 146
Longest absence2 years (2023–2024)

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Merle

Critically Low · 1880–2025 · peak 1921

Laverne

Critically Low · 1885–2025 · peak 1924

Bette

Critically Low · 1896–2025 · peak 1924

Melba

Critically Low · 1893–2025 · peak 1924

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national names file (1880–2025). Names below 5 occurrences in a year are not reported.

Somewhere, a grandmother is unsurprised.

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