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 1986

👦 Boys

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

👧 Girls

  1. 1Jessica
  2. 2Ashley
  3. 3Amanda
  4. 4Jennifer
  5. 5Sarah
  6. 6Stephanie
  7. 7Nicole
  8. 8Brittany
  9. 9Heather
  10. 10Elizabeth
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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