Quick answers about General
How many people are named General?
An estimated 994 living Americans are named General.
How rare is General?
General fell below the SSA's 5-birth reporting floor in 2025. It is extremely rare as a new baby name.
How old is the typical General?
The median age of a living American named General is approximately 57 years, with most bearers falling between 30 and 73 years old.
Is General still popular?
Not especially. General has been declining since its 1918 peak and registered 0 births in 2025.
Where is General most common?
General has its strongest geographic signal in Alabama, where it appears 5.4× more often than the national baseline.
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Where it lives now
General is most concentrated in Alabama — about 5.4× the national rate in the 1940s.
States where General is given more often than the national average — its present-day heartland.
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