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 1974

👦 Boys

  1. 1Michael
  2. 2Jason
  3. 3Christopher
  4. 4David
  5. 5James
  6. 6John
  7. 7Robert
  8. 8Brian
  9. 9Matthew
  10. 10William

👧 Girls

  1. 1Jennifer
  2. 2Amy
  3. 3Michelle
  4. 4Heather
  5. 5Angela
  6. 6Kimberly
  7. 7Melissa
  8. 8Lisa
  9. 9Stephanie
  10. 10Rebecca
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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