Top 100 Baby Names For The Last 100 Years 1911-2010
Baby Names
Obie Editorial Team
The following table shows the 100 most popular given names for male and female babies born during the last 100 years, 1911-2010. For each rank and sex, the table shows the name and the number of occurrences of that name. These time-tested popular names were taken from a universe that includes 164,341,001 male births and 161,801,384 female births.
| Males | Females | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Name | Number | Name | Number |
| 1 | James | 4,873,581 | Mary | 3,696,779 |
| 2 | John | 4,773,654 | Patricia | 1,566,692 |
| 3 | Robert | 4,676,298 | Elizabeth | 1,455,480 |
| 4 | Michael | 4,230,343 | Jennifer | 1,455,078 |
| 5 | William | 3,751,295 | Linda | 1,446,268 |
| 6 | David | 3,501,167 | Barbara | 1,422,096 |
| 7 | Richard | 2,515,816 | Susan | 1,108,242 |
| 8 | Joseph | 2,423,585 | Margaret | 1,106,767 |
| 9 | Charles | 2,210,908 | Dorothy | 1,044,917 |
| 10 | Thomas | 2,185,231 | Jessica | 1,031,222 |
| 11 | Christopher | 1,946,004 | Sarah | 988,669 |
| 12 | Daniel | 1,793,531 | Betty | 984,037 |
| 13 | Matthew | 1,494,614 | Nancy | 982,348 |
| 14 | Donald | 1,397,722 | Karen | 980,080 |
| 15 | Paul | 1,345,491 | Lisa | 962,245 |
| 16 | Anthony | 1,341,265 | Helen | 883,512 |
| 17 | Mark | 1,331,387 | Sandra | 870,657 |
| 18 | George | 1,303,831 | Donna | 827,850 |
| 19 | Steven | 1,259,886 | Ashley | 816,948 |
| 20 | Kenneth | 1,250,601 | Kimberly | 814,903 |
| 21 | Edward | 1,197,200 | Carol | 813,369 |
| 22 | Andrew | 1,187,710 | Michelle | 796,579 |
| 23 | Brian | 1,146,407 | Amanda | 766,459 |
| 24 | Kevin | 1,128,247 | Melissa | 741,545 |
| 25 | Joshua | 1,124,192 | Laura | 740,473 |
| 26 | Ronald | 1,071,178 | Emily | 738,856 |
| 27 | Timothy | 1,045,799 | Deborah | 737,223 |
| 28 | Jason | 991,081 | Stephanie | 727,129 |
| 29 | Jeffrey | 964,267 | Rebecca | 723,053 |
| 30 | Gary | 895,899 | Ruth | 719,666 |
| 31 | Ryan | 858,592 | Sharon | 719,184 |
| 32 | Eric | 851,085 | Cynthia | 702,255 |
| 33 | Nicholas | 844,211 | Kathleen | 701,888 |
| 34 | Stephen | 840,064 | Anna | 696,383 |
| 35 | Frank | 810,597 | Shirley | 681,086 |
| 36 | Larry | 799,807 | Amy | 667,618 |
| 37 | Jacob | 791,826 | Angela | 649,890 |
| 38 | Jonathan | 775,454 | Virginia | 618,173 |
| 39 | Scott | 764,709 | Brenda | 603,767 |
| 40 | Justin | 740,098 | Catherine | 597,385 |
| 41 | Raymond | 737,690 | Pamela | 592,687 |
| 42 | Brandon | 713,673 | Katherine | 579,521 |
| 43 | Gregory | 698,624 | Christine | 573,292 |
| 44 | Patrick | 647,021 | Nicole | 568,611 |
| 45 | Samuel | 646,277 | Janet | 551,295 |
| 46 | Benjamin | 624,654 | Debra | 549,898 |
| 47 | Dennis | 609,661 | Carolyn | 547,616 |
| 48 | Jack | 607,881 | Rachel | 537,802 |
| 49 | Jerry | 603,351 | Samantha | 528,753 |
| 50 | Walter | 553,062 | Frances | 525,337 |
| 51 | Alexander | 552,356 | Heather | 522,278 |
| 52 | Douglas | 551,905 | Diane | 516,995 |
| 53 | Peter | 547,837 | Maria | 513,074 |
| 54 | Henry | 543,592 | Joyce | 503,645 |
| 55 | Tyler | 541,340 | Julie | 501,504 |
| 56 | Harold | 523,743 | Martha | 487,579 |
| 57 | Aaron | 520,581 | Joan | 477,768 |
| 58 | Jose | 517,534 | Evelyn | 472,812 |
| 59 | Adam | 509,780 | Kelly | 465,714 |
| 60 | Zachary | 494,181 | Christina | 465,094 |
| 61 | Carl | 474,929 | Alice | 456,880 |
| 62 | Nathan | 474,420 | Marie | 456,178 |
| 63 | Arthur | 469,212 | Judith | 449,030 |
| 64 | Kyle | 459,956 | Doris | 448,637 |
| 65 | Gerald | 441,535 | Ann | 447,794 |
| 66 | Lawrence | 437,050 | Jean | 446,652 |
| 67 | Albert | 436,830 | Lauren | 445,128 |
| 68 | Roger | 433,743 | Cheryl | 438,696 |
| 69 | Keith | 428,854 | Emma | 431,294 |
| 70 | Joe | 420,736 | Megan | 428,400 |
| 71 | Terry | 418,988 | Victoria | 427,002 |
| 72 | Jeremy | 417,112 | Kathryn | 425,157 |
| 73 | Willie | 409,787 | Jacqueline | 411,346 |
| 74 | Sean | 400,964 | Andrea | 411,170 |
| 75 | Ralph | 389,101 | Gloria | 406,609 |
| 76 | Jesse | 382,299 | Teresa | 405,678 |
| 77 | Billy | 379,610 | Rose | 405,511 |
| 78 | Bruce | 375,108 | Janice | 403,723 |
| 79 | Roy | 372,318 | Sara | 398,100 |
| 80 | Austin | 362,392 | Mildred | 391,435 |
| 81 | Eugene | 361,842 | Julia | 388,987 |
| 82 | Bryan | 360,132 | Theresa | 387,174 |
| 83 | Louis | 358,101 | Judy | 380,600 |
| 84 | Harry | 354,509 | Beverly | 375,590 |
| 85 | Christian | 352,661 | Hannah | 372,959 |
| 86 | Wayne | 347,505 | Denise | 369,519 |
| 87 | Russell | 338,664 | Grace | 368,520 |
| 88 | Alan | 328,702 | Marilyn | 365,212 |
| 89 | Philip | 326,516 | Amber | 362,137 |
| 90 | Howard | 323,690 | Danielle | 357,831 |
| 91 | Randy | 323,134 | Brittany | 353,486 |
| 92 | Jordan | 322,088 | Jane | 351,181 |
| 93 | Juan | 315,869 | Diana | 347,984 |
| 94 | Bobby | 310,698 | Lori | 339,910 |
| 95 | Vincent | 307,334 | Kathy | 332,472 |
| 96 | Ethan | 305,144 | Tammy | 331,317 |
| 97 | Johnny | 301,711 | Tiffany | 331,101 |
| 98 | Phillip | 298,532 | Crystal | 324,482 |
| 99 | Fred | 297,481 | Lillian | 319,832 |
| 100 | Craig | 296,607 | Phyllis | 318,976 |
Source: 100% sample based on Social Security card application data as of the end of February 2011.
