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Popular Names by Birth Year. Enter the Year and Popularity for a List of the Most Popular Names. Any year after 1879
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.
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.
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.
Olivia and Liam are once again America’s most popular baby names, with 2023 being the fifth consecutive year that parents have chosen the monikers for their little ones. Also, for the fifth consecutive year, Noah took the second slot for boys, and Emma for girls.
Olivia and Liam are once again America’s most popular baby names in 2022. Liam has topped the list for six years in a row, and Olivia has been the top choice for new parents for four years. There is only one new name in the top 10, with Luna crawling into the top 10 for the first time. Here are the top 10 boys’ and girls’ names for 2022:
The following table shows the 200 most popular given names for male and female babies born during the 1940s. For each rank and sex, the table shows the name and the number of occurrences of that name.
The following tables show the five most frequent given names, by State, for male and female births in 1988. The number to the right of each name is the number of occurrences in the data. The source is a 100% sample based on Social Security card application data as of March 2024. See the limitations of this data source
We provide the top 100 names for a selected State and year of birth, and we also provide the top 5 names by State, for all States, for a selected year of birth.
At the time of a child’s birth, parents supply the name to the agency when applying for a child’s Social Security card, thus making Social Security America’s source for the most popular baby names. 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 2021: