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Baby Names
Find out what the most popular baby names are or names that are not so common.
Most Popular Baby Names
Check out these popular names from the 1900s and the 1950s and then up through the 2000s.
| 1900s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female |
| 1 | John | Mary | James | Mary | Michael | Lisa | Michael | Jennifer | Michael | Jessica | Michael | Jessica | Jacob | Emily |
| 2 | William | Helen | Michael | Linda | David | Mary | Christopher | Amy | Christopher | Jennifer | Christopher | Ashley | Michael | Madison |
| 3 | James | Margaret | Robert | Patricia | John | Susan | Jason | Melissa | Matthew | Amanda | Matthew | Emily | Joshua | Emma |
| 4 | George | Anna | John | Susan | James | Karen | David | Michelle | Joshua | Ashley | Joshua | Sarah | Matthew | Olivia |
| 5 | Charles | Ruth | David | Deborah | Robert | Kimberly | James | Kimberly | David | Sarah | Jacob | Samantha | Daniel | Hannah |
| 6 | Robert | Elizabeth | William | Barbara | Mark | Patricia | John | Lisa | James | Stephanie | Nicholas | Amanda | Christopher | Abigail |
| 7 | Joseph | Dorothy | Richard | Deborah | William | Linda | Robert | Angela | Daniel | Melissa | Andrew | Brittany | Andrew | Isabella |
| 8 | Frank | Marie | Thomas | Karen | Richard | Donna | Brian | Heather | Robert | Nicole | Daniel | Elizabeth | Ethan | Samantha |
| 9 | Edward | Florence | Mark | Nancy | Thomas | Michelle | William | Stephanie | John | Elizabeth | Tyler | Taylor | Joseph | Elizabeth |
| 10 | Thomas | Mildred | Charles | Donna | Jeffery | Cynthia | Matthew | Nicole | Joseph | Heather | Joseph | Megan | William | Ashley |
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Social Security Administration - Baby Names