Baby Name Popularity
How popular is a name in America right now? Search the full Social Security data for the latest year, with decade-by-decade trends for recent favorites.
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Data: U.S. Social Security Administration national baby-name statistics — every name given to five or more babies in the latest published year (2024), in the public domain. Trends show each decade since 1984 for names in the recent top 500.
Questions people ask
Why isn't my (very unusual) name here?
The SSA publishes only names given to at least five babies of a sex in a given year — rare names are withheld for privacy. Absence from the data usually means very rare, not nonexistent.
How current is this?
The SSA releases each year's national data the following spring. 2024 is the latest published year; SSA data for 2025 will be reflected after release.