Data from the 2010 Census tells a different story.

What's the most common first name in america. The traditional number of names in the United States is three namesa first name a middle name and your family or last name. The SSA website gives the top 1000 boy and girl names as reported on Social Security card applications for each year from 1880 onward. While Smith remains the most common US.

Now the tricky bit. By the late 20th century some historic names were replaced with Jessica and Micheal. 301 rows Another way to estimate the most common first names in America is to look at names of babies registered at birth with the Social Security Administration SSA.

Its up to you how many names your daughter will have but its certainly something to consider. 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. The following table shows the five most frequent given names for male and female babies born in each year 1921-2020.

Names separated by sex are listed in descending order of popularity. Among Chinese in Boston the most common three first names are Wei 134 Hong 0916 and Hui 0836. Since those are the countries from which many of Americas original settlers came its hardly surprising.

We turned those numbers on first names. The 128 last names culled 22483 unique people after also de-duping by address. Elizabeth Alaska 2008 Emma.

This approach allows us to see what names are popular in a given year but it doesnt account for names of people born outside the US. Look for these names in the top 10 list in the coming years. Americas most common surname by a mile is Smith 25 million Americans have it ahead of 2 million with the surname Johnson.