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 1979

👦 Boys

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

👧 Girls

  1. 1Jennifer
  2. 2Melissa
  3. 3Amanda
  4. 4Jessica
  5. 5Amy
  6. 6Sarah
  7. 7Heather
  8. 8Angela
  9. 9Nicole
  10. 10Michelle
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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