Meaning and history
An English nickname meaning “buck” or “male deer,” ultimately derived from Old English bucc.
20062006: 17 births, rank #5,072
2007: 22 births, rank #4,375
2008: 23 births, rank #4,267
2009: 21 births, rank #4,582
2010: 21 births, rank #4,517
20112011: 16 births, rank #5,433
2012: 23 births, rank #4,251
2013: 23 births, rank #4,180
2014: 41 births, rank #2,847
2015: 27 births, rank #3,882
20162016: 38 births, rank #3,059
2017: 55 births, rank #2,345
2018: 36 births, rank #3,171
2019: 45 births, rank #2,766
2020: 45 births, rank #2,728
20212021: 57 births, rank #2,373
2022: 49 births, rank #2,675
2023: 68 births, rank #2,129
2024: 55 births, rank #2,476
20252025: 76 births, rank #1,992
Buck rose from #915 to #900 for boys between 1981 and 1982. Its highest annual birth count came in 1919, with 102 births.