The annual list of most popular baby names is always met with some interesting blend of intrigue surprise and well eye-rolling.

Most common names each year. Retrieved June 17 2006. Liam remains the most popular name for boys for the fourth year in a row. Interestingly there are more of these for boys than for girls.

Click on each year to see a full list of the top boys and girls names. Olivia Emma and Ava were the top three most popular names for baby girls and Liam Noah and. Rank 1 is assigned to the name with the highest number of occurrences rank 2 to the name with the next highest.

20 21 NSW Registry of Births Deaths Marriages. So what are the classic names that have appeared in the top 100 in every decade since 1904. These are the names that appear largest in our word clouds.

Male name Female name. Philippine Names Retrieved June 16 2006. This year are Sophia Isabella Noah Liam and Mason the most interesting name stories are the global sensations and novel inventions increasingly heard here and around the world from Anakin to Zendaya.

In 2020 the top three most popular female and male names remained the same for a second year in a row. We compiled a list of the most popular baby name for every year. For boys there are 12 names that have appeared in the top 100 in every decade since 1904.

From 1918 until now the leaderboard has shifted several times and recent years have seen even quicker changes in power. John and Mary were the No. We count the number of occurrences of each name during the decade and then rank them in order of decreasing frequency.