Popular Names

🍼 Popular Names of Your Birth Year

The top 10 most popular US baby names — boys and girls — the year you were born, from US Social Security data (1880–2008).

👇 Showing 2000 as an example. Pick your birth year above to see yours.

Most popular US names of 2000

👦 Boys

  1. 1Jacob
  2. 2Michael
  3. 3Matthew
  4. 4Joshua
  5. 5Christopher
  6. 6Nicholas
  7. 7Andrew
  8. 8Joseph
  9. 9Daniel
  10. 10Tyler

👧 Girls

  1. 1Emily
  2. 2Hannah
  3. 3Madison
  4. 4Ashley
  5. 5Sarah
  6. 6Alexis
  7. 7Samantha
  8. 8Jessica
  9. 9Taylor
  10. 10Elizabeth
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About this data

Compiled from the US Social Security Administration’s record of names given at birth, showing the most popular names each year. A fact-based look at the names of your era.

※ Based on US SSA data (1880–2008); Japan’s popular names differ. Not fortune-telling. Source: US SSA (via hadley/data-baby-names). About our data