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).

Most popular US names of 1922

👦 Boys

  1. 1John
  2. 2Robert
  3. 3William
  4. 4James
  5. 5Charles
  6. 6George
  7. 7Joseph
  8. 8Edward
  9. 9Richard
  10. 10Frank

👧 Girls

  1. 1Mary
  2. 2Dorothy
  3. 3Helen
  4. 4Margaret
  5. 5Ruth
  6. 6Betty
  7. 7Virginia
  8. 8Mildred
  9. 9Elizabeth
  10. 10Frances
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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