Luckily the SSA keeps track of the names with the biggest jumps in popularity too.

Most common names in us. The variables used in the regression were on the one hand the frequency that that name. Rank 1 is assigned to the name with the highest number of occurrences rank 2 to the name with the next highest. The agency records all births that happen in the US and the data for its top-ranked names comes from an exact count of how many new babies were given certain names in years prior.

The following list reflects the US. 2 JOHNSON Son of John. According to census records going back to the turn of the 20th century Smith is the most popular name in the US.

151 rows Overall Most Popular. The SSA just dropped its update of the most popular baby names in the United States based on 2020 data. 1-300 301-600 601-900 901 Alphabetical list.

Ethan Alaska 2008 James. 25 Most Popular American Male Names 25 Most Popular American Female Names. 10 Alabama 2008 William.

Here are the top 1000 last names surnames in the United States according to the most recent US. 103 rows Name Number Name Number. CNN Olivia 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.

Most populous city. We count the number of occurrences of each name during the decade and then rank them in order of decreasing frequency. Specifically we ran 1000 regressions one for each of the top 1000 most-common first names.