The top three names for both girls Olivia Emma and Ava and boys Liam Noah and Oliver remained the same for the second year in a row.

Social security name popularity. Whenever names were tied for popularity in a given year or decade they were assigned the same rank. The agency pulls applications received for Social Security cards to put together the list for each year. Our popularity lists tend to predict the US.

This is the most recent data available which is for 2020. While the name Joseph is the 24th most popular boys name in the United States according to the 2019 Social Security Administration its shorter version Joe is almost just as popular. The claimants benefits are based on the wage earners contributions.

It takes a while to go through a tape of millions of records but after about an hour the results came in. Federal government that administers Social Security a social insurance program consisting of retirement disability and survivor benefits. This is a cool tool.

Every year were the authority on the most popular baby names from the prior year based on requests for Social Security numbers for newborns. You can visit our baby names page to see the top names from 2018 and see where your or your childs name ranks. It appears parents chose to stick with the familiar during an unprecedented time.

The agency on Friday released its list of the most popular baby names in the US. What are the most popular names of 2020. Staff from the Social Security Administration put together a database of baby names.

These days were used to newborns named Liam Olivia and Ava but those names havent dominated the popularity lists for very long in the grand scheme of things. To determine what the most popular names were at the time I wrote a simple program to sort the Social Security card data first by year of birth then by gender and then by first name. For the year 2019.