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 1966

👦 Boys

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

👧 Girls

  1. 1Lisa
  2. 2Kimberly
  3. 3Mary
  4. 4Michelle
  5. 5Karen
  6. 6Susan
  7. 7Patricia
  8. 8Tammy
  9. 9Angela
  10. 10Jennifer
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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