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 1962

👦 Boys

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

👧 Girls

  1. 1Lisa
  2. 2Mary
  3. 3Susan
  4. 4Karen
  5. 5Linda
  6. 6Patricia
  7. 7Donna
  8. 8Cynthia
  9. 9Deborah
  10. 10Sandra
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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