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 1926

👦 Boys

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

👧 Girls

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