Top 10 All-Time Most Popular US Male Baby Names
NameAlmanac ranks the most popular US male baby names recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880, using total cumulative count across all years of the public SSA Baby Names release.
Research
Original data research from the NameAlmanac editorial team. Every page is rendered server-side from a live SELECT against the portal database; no numbers are hardcoded.
Top 10 All-Time Most Popular US Female Baby Names
NameAlmanac ranks the most popular US female baby names recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880, using total cumulative count across all years of the public SSA Baby Names release.
Top 10 US Baby Names of the 2020s
NameAlmanac ranks the most popular US baby names recorded in the 2020s decade by the Social Security Administration, separated by sex. Rendered server-side from a live SELECT joining the rankings precompute against the names table.
Top 10 US Baby Names of the 2010s
The decade of Liam and Olivia, ranked by total decade births for boys and girls from the SSA national files — and how the 2010s leaders differ from the all-time classics.
The Most Balanced Unisex Baby Names
Most "unisex" names skew heavily one way. We rank the names given to boys and girls in genuinely near-even numbers — each side above 20,000 births — from SSA data.
How is this research compiled?
Each research page runs a live SQL query against the Social Security Administration name files (national 1880–2024) at request time and renders the result server-side, so every ranking reflects the latest published SSA data — no figures are hardcoded.