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Posted on 06/07/2025 10:37:26 AM PDT by Duke C.
The following table shows the 100 most popular given names for male and female babies born during the last 100 years, 1925-2024. For each rank and sex, the table shows the name and the number of occurrences of that name. These time-tested popular names were taken from a universe that includes 179,421,535 male births and 173,631,916 female births.
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Hey, I’m James, at the top of the list. I’m never at the top of the list.
This roster doesn’t say from which country.
Since the source is SSA.gov, I’m guessing US.
What? Michael has consistently been at the top. I demand a recount. The only bright spot is the our traditional rival, Christopher, is sitting at #10
Woohoo 67!
Its Gaelic. Means ‘of the woods’. Suits me to a tee.
From the SSA, so the USA.
The top names for the 2010s decade had some surprises, at least to me:
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/names2010s.html
Good.
My brothers names made the list but neither mine nor my sisters did.
I noticed that Nannette isn’t on the list, so I looked it up and found that it ranks 3,584, and that there are less than 6,000 people in this country named Nannette.
My brothers and I came in at 1, 3, and 5. Two of my sisters were at 10 and 26; the third is not in the top 100.
Let’s go Brandon.
Where’s Jose & Hay-zus? (Jesus)
Nannette is a great name, good it is far down the list. I’m embarrassed that our family’s names are all further up. Wouldn’t want to be ordinary but I guess we are.
Nan(n)ette is a French nickname from Anne, like Jimmy from James, or Natasha from Anastasia. It’s been popular a few times, probably due to the musical “No No Nanette” and the more recent Netflix movie “Nanette,” which is essentially a comedy routine with Hannah Gadsby—”Hannah” being the original Hebrew version of Anne, which may or may not be a coincidence.
It is in the UK
Mitu, but my father's name was Elgie, which is probably one of the least used first names in the US; it was a diminutive of Elgin, though there is also a last-name Elgie that is just about as rare.
Jose-A and Jose-B
One of the worse things a parent can do is name their kid a normal name but misspell it to be “unique”.
It’s not unique, you just doomed your kid to have the same conversation every time they are introduced and how they have to explain why their normal name is misspelled.
Second worse thing a parent can do?
Add the letter A or E to a male name and give it to daughter. Uggggg
over 986,000 Karens
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