102 rows The following table shows the five most frequent given names for male and female babies born in each year 1921-2020.

Most popular baby names last 5 years. Olivia Emma and Ava were the top three most popular names for baby girls and Liam Noah and Oliver were the most popular for boys. TheSocial Security Administration releases the highly anticipated list of most popular baby names. Henry joined the top 10 list of boy names.

Rank 1 is assigned to the name with the highest number of occurrences rank 2 to the name with the next highest. James in the fifth spot is todays hottest boys name up by 72 in 2015. At least 1000 babies had to be given the name in 2017 for it to be included on the list.

103 rows Name Number Name Number. Even five years ago the name had yet to break the top 100 but now its ranked number 46. Its hard to pinpoint exactly what has made the name so popular.

As for the ladies Elsie which sneaks in at 24 is. Popular names by decade are determined the same way we determine the popularity of a name during a single year. Stacker used data from the Social Security Administration to list the fastest growing baby names of the past 50 years.

Last year the most popular name in the country for a baby boy was Liam while Olivia was the most popular name for a baby girl. For girls names this includes Amahle 2014-2018 Lesedi 2014-2015 2017-2018 Amogelang 2014 2016-2018 and Thandolwethu 2014 - 2017. Top Five Names for Births in 1921-2020.

United States most common names 1990 census Mary. Over the last 100 years the male name Michael has held the top spot most often 44 times while the female name Mary has been ranked number one 35 times over those years. Originally a Scottish last name Paisley didnt even turn up on name charts until 2006 when 0016 percent of baby girls were given the name.