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Social Security began compiling the baby names list in 1997, with names dating back to 1880. Each year, the list reveals the effect of pop-culture on naming trends. Here are the top five fastest rising boys’ and girls’ names in 2022:
Popular names by decade are determined the same way we determine the popularity of a name during a single year. We count the number of occurrences of each name during the decade, and then rank them in order of decreasing frequency.
The following table shows the 100 most popular given names for male and female babies born during the last 100 years, 1924-2023. For each rank and sex, the table shows the name and the number of occurrences of that name.
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The following table shows the five most frequent given names for male and female babies born in each year 1924-2023. Over the last 100 years, the male name Michael has held the top spot most often (44 times), while the female name Mary has been ranked number one 32 times over those years.
Olivia and Liam are Social Security’s top baby names for fifth consecutive year. Every year, Social Security celebrates Mother’s Day by announcing the 1000 most popular baby names. You can view the full list at www.ssa.gov/babynames, and see how popular your name was the year you were born and where it’s ranked now.
For all of the top baby names of 2021, and to see where your name ranks, go to Social Security’s website. Acting Commissioner Kilolo Kijakazi encourages everyone to enjoy the baby names list and, while online, create a my Social Security account.
For each year, rank 1 indicates the most popular name, rank 2 the next most popular, and so forth. A change in popularity is indicated by the difference, either an increase or decrease, in ranks from one year to the next.
For U.S. births in 2023, the top 1000 names represent about 71 percent of all names.