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 1948

👦 Boys

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

👧 Girls

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