Popular names by decade are determined the same way we determine the popularity of a name during a single year.

Common baby names by year. You may want to choose a name thats been popular in recent years to help your child fit in. Fernanda Ravagnani for BabyCenter. The list above refers to the top 1000 baby girl names from 2020 as determined by birth certificate data.

Check out your birth year below to see if your name made the list. 102 rows Year Rank 1 Rank 2 Rank 3 Rank 4 Rank 5 Rank 1 Rank 2 Rank 3 Rank 4 Rank 5. So for the coolest and freshest options take a look at our readers favorites in the first quarter of 2021.

But 2018 saw another trend. Rank 1 is assigned to the name with the highest number of occurrences rank 2 to the name with the next highest. For each rank and sex the table shows the name and the number of occurrences of that name.

The 200 most popular names were taken from a. Dorothy - 3 girls name. Food names rising in the ranksThough the most popular baby names over the past seven or so decades havent changed dramatically year-to-year theres a whole other list of old-fashioned baby names that could be making a comeback.

CNNOlivia and Liam were Americas most popular names for baby girls and boys in 2020 according to the Social Security Administrations annual list of top baby names released on Friday. Liam and Emma were still at the top in 2018. On the social and political fronts Kamala up 104 and Liberty up 12 rose in popularity while Karen and Chad declined by 13 and 12 respectively.

Robert James and John were the most popular boys names and prevalent girls picks were still Mary Betty and Barbara. Mary kept the top spot while the second most popular name was Dorothy originally a Greek name meaning gift of god In the 1920s people started naming their children after figures in popular culture and Dorothy was a common name of many actresses in the silent movie era like Dorothy MacKaill and one baby girl. The following table shows the 200 most popular given names for male and female babies born during the 1960s.