What is the most popular name?

Top names by State The following table shows the five most frequent given names for male and female babies born in each year 1918-2017. Over the last 100 years, the male name Michael has held the top spot most often (44 times), while the female name Mary has been ranked number one 38 times over those years. read more

Most Popular Baby Names Baby name popularity is measured differently around the world, with the US and the UK releasing their official lists of Top 1000 names several months after the year in which the babies were named, Australia and Canada tallying provincial name popularity lists but not national totals, and other countries measuring most popular baby names in a range of ways from completely to not at all. read more

Top Names Over the Last 100 Years The following table shows the 100 most popular given names for male and female babies born during the last 100 years, 1918-2017. For each rank and sex, the table shows the name and the number of occurrences of that name. read more