Popularity change is the difference in ranks from one year to the next.

Name popularity search over time. The default region is the United States but this can be changed in the settings. Well tell you which of eight. Search for or click on a name to see popularity trends for it.

And the names that were the most popular for 50 years like John and Mary have now fallen. Compare and view popularity of search terms. Some fascinating surprises in Kelli Bradys analysis of the most popular names since 1880such as Patricia being 3 and Jamesnot Johnthe top name for boys over.

We compared ranks for both years only if a name was in the top in at least one of the 2 years. Certainly the couple are not alone with names such as Eleanor Audrey Grace Harry and Jack returning to the top of the list of baby names in recent times after absences of many decades. The following interactive shows you which name had the same popularity in the past year and every decade since 1890 as yours did the year you were born using recently released baby name.

Trends has upgraded to a newer version which is not supported by this device. After performing a search use the region buttons to select which results to display. To find out how popular your name was when you were bornand how it has fared since thenenter your gender birth year and first name into this interactive.

One of these names. Top Names in the USA. You can select which measure of popularity to display on the y-axis buttons.

For each year rank 1 indicates the most popular name rank 2 the next most popular and so forth. Male name Female name. Baby names popularity changes quite a bit over the years.