I did a quick count of the number of names in each category that started with each letter.

Most common first letter names. JB is the most likely two-letter combination so congratulations to Jack Black Jessica Biel Jason Bateman Justin Bieber and all the other JBs who have apparently taken over. Currently the most popular names for baby girls are Olivia Emma Ava Sophia and Isabella. Thanks to its botanical association Daisy has been a popular name choice starting with the letter D.

Select Decade2010s 2000s 1990s 1980s 1970s 1960s 1950s 1940s 1930s 1920s 1910s 1900s 1890s 1880s. First names starting with C D J M and R are fairly common as are last names starting with B M S and W. What letters of the English alphabet are used most as the first letter of the first name.

I found lists of the most common last name in the US today as well as lists of the most common first names male and female over the last 100 years. The top baby boy names are Liam Noah Oliver William and Elijah. W 5854 million.

The Social Security Administration SSA keeps track of the most popular baby names in the United States breaking them down into two lists. The bar charts show that J M S D and C are the most common initials for first names whereas S B H M and C are the most common initials for last names. This data visualizations color scheme makes a few things clear.

For each rank and sex the table shows the name and the number of occurrences of that name. Inspired by this post on Andrew Gelmans blog and using data from the Social Security Administration here are some basic statistics on the frequency of letters in names across time. For example Johnson and Jones are both in the top 5 popular names totaling about 12 million more then Smith 27m vs 39 22 and 17mSo what this all means is that I had to do some extra work-and count for myself.

One for female names and one for male names. Popular names by decade are determined the same way we determine the popularity of a name during a single year. United States Baby Name Letter Statistics.