Browse Names
Explore 104,819 distinct names (116,550 records including gender variants)
All Names
Showing 1–50 of 104,819
| Name | Sex | Total births |
|---|---|---|
| James | Boy | 5,238,570 |
| John | Boy | 5,174,470 |
| Robert | Boy | 4,845,891 |
| Michael | Boy | 4,418,526 |
| William | Boy | 4,189,004 |
| Mary | Girl | 4,139,160 |
| David | Boy | 3,669,730 |
| Joseph | Boy | 2,662,040 |
| Richard | Boy | 2,576,005 |
| Charles | Boy | 2,428,685 |
| Thomas | Boy | 2,351,624 |
| Christopher | Boy | 2,064,796 |
| Daniel | Boy | 1,974,589 |
| Elizabeth | Girl | 1,681,878 |
| Matthew | Boy | 1,646,990 |
| Patricia | Girl | 1,573,445 |
| George | Boy | 1,484,412 |
| Anthony | Boy | 1,481,986 |
| Jennifer | Girl | 1,471,191 |
| Linda | Girl | 1,454,832 |
| Barbara | Girl | 1,436,402 |
| Donald | Boy | 1,414,419 |
| Paul | Boy | 1,396,943 |
| Mark | Boy | 1,360,769 |
| Andrew | Boy | 1,324,893 |
| Edward | Boy | 1,301,987 |
| Steven | Boy | 1,291,851 |
| Kenneth | Boy | 1,282,809 |
| Margaret | Girl | 1,262,307 |
| Joshua | Boy | 1,244,059 |
| Kevin | Boy | 1,182,874 |
| Brian | Boy | 1,172,762 |
| Susan | Girl | 1,123,232 |
| Dorothy | Girl | 1,111,479 |
| Sarah | Girl | 1,095,724 |
| Timothy | Boy | 1,082,404 |
| Ronald | Boy | 1,081,788 |
| Jessica | Girl | 1,050,306 |
| Jason | Boy | 1,049,831 |
| Helen | Girl | 1,023,527 |
| Nancy | Girl | 1,004,171 |
| Betty | Girl | 1,001,019 |
| Karen | Girl | 987,811 |
| Jacob | Boy | 981,940 |
| Jeffrey | Boy | 979,049 |
| Lisa | Girl | 966,965 |
| Ryan | Boy | 960,560 |
| Nicholas | Boy | 922,897 |
| Frank | Boy | 915,398 |
| Anna | Girl | 912,251 |
By Decade
Total US births recorded per decade (SSA, 1880–2024).
By State
Cumulative births recorded per state (SSA state files, 1910–2024).
By Year
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Methodology
Every page reachable from this directory renders data from the U.S. Social Security Administration's public baby-name release — the national annual file (1880–2024) and state-level files (1910–2024). Name-profile pages pull a single record; letter, decade, year, and state pages run aggregate queries against the same database.
Inclusion threshold: The SSA excludes any name with fewer than five occurrences in a given year (or state-year) to protect individual privacy. Rare and emerging names do not appear in our listings until they cross that threshold.
Spelling variants are counted separately: The SSA treats each spelling as its own entry, and we follow the same convention. Sophia and Sofia, Aiden and Ayden appear as four different names.
Directory coverage: A-Z letter pages list every name beginning with that letter. Decade pages aggregate annual births across a ten-year window. Year pages show the single-year top 100. State pages cumulate state-year records from 1910 onward.
Updates: The SSA typically releases the previous year's file each May. We rebuild the database within 30 days of each release.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications (ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html).