The Most Popular Baby Names from the Year You Were Born
Updated: Feb. 28, 2021Did your name make the list?
North America’s most popular baby names
Having one of the most popular names can be a good and bad thing. Everyone will know how to spell your name, but the chances that you have at least one other person in your class or at your job with the same name are pretty high. We gathered the top three names for every year, 1950-2018, from the Social Security Administration. Check out your birth year below to see if your name made the list.
1951
Girls: 1. Linda, 2. Mary, 3. Patricia
Boys: 1. James, 2. Robert, 3. John
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1953
Girls: 1. Mary, 2. Linda, 3. Deborah
Boys: 1. Robert, 2. James, 3. Michael
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1955
Girls: 1. Mary, 2. Deborah, 3. Linda
Boys: 1. Michael, 2. David, 3. James
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1957
Girls: 1. Mary, 2. Susan, 3. Linda
Boys: 1. Michael, 2. James, 3. David
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1961
Girls: 1. Mary, 2. Lisa, 3. Susan
Boys: 1. Michael, 2. David, 3. John
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1965
Girls: 1. Lisa, 2. Mary, 3. Karen
Boys: 1. Michael, 2. John, 3. David
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1969
Girls: 1. Lisa, 2. Michelle, 3. Jennifer
Boys: 1. Michael, 2. David, 3. James
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1970
Girls: 1. Jennifer, 2. Lisa, 3. Kimberly
Boys: 1. Michael, 2. James, 3. David
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1972
Girls: 1. Jennifer, 2. Michelle, 3. Lisa
Boys: 1. Michael, 2. Christopher, 3. James
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1975
Girls: 1. Jennifer, 2. Amy, 3. Heather
Boys: 1. Michael, 2. Jason, 3. Christopher
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1980
Girls: 1. Jennifer, 2. Amanda, 3. Jessica
Boys: 1. Michael, 2. Christopher, Jason
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1985
Girls: 1. Jessica, 2. Ashley, 3. Jennifer
Boys: 1. Michael, 2. Christopher, 3. Matthew
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1988
Girls: 1. Jessica, 2. Ashley, 3. Amanda
Boys: 1. Michael, 2. Christopher, 3. Matthew
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1995
Girls: 1. Jessica, 2. Ashley, 3. Emily
Boys: 1. Michael, 2. Matthew, 3. Christopher
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2000
Girls: 1. Emily, 2. Hannah, 3. Madison
Boys: 1. Jacob, 2. Michael, 3. Matthew
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2014
Girls: 1. Emma, 2. Olivia, 3. Sophia
Boys: 1. Noah, 2. Liam, 3. Mason
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2018
Girls: 1. Emma, 2. Olivia, 3. Sophia
Boys: 1. Noah, 2. Liam, 3. Mason
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