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 1943

👦 Boys

  1. 1James
  2. 2Robert
  3. 3John
  4. 4William
  5. 5Richard
  6. 6David
  7. 7Charles
  8. 8Thomas
  9. 9Ronald
  10. 10Michael

👧 Girls

  1. 1Mary
  2. 2Barbara
  3. 3Patricia
  4. 4Linda
  5. 5Carol
  6. 6Sandra
  7. 7Judith
  8. 8Sharon
  9. 9Nancy
  10. 10Betty

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