Pickens

Boy · recorded 1918–1930

  • 1930last recorded
  • 1918best year

Most popular in 1918.

Last recorded in 1930. Fewer than five boys a year have been given it since, so it's a true rarity.

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Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Pickens.

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Its story

Popularity since 1918

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.
See the 2 recorded years as a table
Pickens, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
YearPer million
19186
19305

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Pickens isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

More like Pickens

Pickens doesn’t share a sound pattern with any other boys name in this corpus — about 1 name in 100 doesn’t. There’s nothing to compare it to yet.

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1930
5
Rank in 1930
#4,001
How rare
1 in 219,475 boys
Since 1918
11

Pickens was last recorded in 1930. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1918, at 6 per million boys born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Pickens doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.