Explore the number of births by name each year in the U.S. since 1880 in a comprehensive baby names spreadsheet. Explore the most popular baby names by year and decade, popular gender neutral names, or use our unique baby name tool. You can use the baby name lookup to chart the popularity of any baby name over time. The baby names data comes from the Social Security Administration (SSA) baby names database. Explore for free in Row Zero, a next-gen spreadsheet built for big data.
- Dataset Summary
- U.S. Birth Names by Year
- Birth Names by State by Year
- Baby Name Lookup
- Most Popular Names
- Gender Neutral Names
- Unique Baby Names
Dataset Summary
This baby names spreadsheet includes several different sheets of baby names data from the Social Security Administration.
U.S. Birth Names by Year
View the count of births by name by year since 1880. You can easily filter by name, gender, and year, and sort from most popular to least popular names. 
Note: Names must have 5+ births in a year to be included.
Birth Names by State by Year
View the count of births by name by state by year since 1910. You can easily filter to see the most popular baby names by state for any year. 
Baby Name Lookup
Look up any baby name to chart the popularity of baby names over time. Below we show how the name Enzo has surged in popularity in recent years. 
Most Popular Names
On the Most Popular Names sheet you can easily filter and sort to see the most popular names by gender by year.
Most Popular Boy Names
The 10 most popular baby boy names in the U.S. are Liam, Noah, Oliver, James, Elijah, Mateo, Theodore, Henry, Lucas, and William. 
Most Popular Girl Names
The 10 most popular baby girl names in the U.S. are Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia, Sophia, Mia, Isabella, Ava, Evelyn, and Luna. 
Most popular names by decade
You can scroll down and filter pivot tables to explore the most popular baby names by decade. 
Most popular names all-time
The 10 most popular names of all-time in the U.S. (since 1880) are dominated by male names, with Mary being the only female name to crack the top 15. Looking at most popular name years, we can see that U.S. baby names used to be much more concentrated around popular names. The most popular name year ever was 1947 with nearly 100,000 Linda births. Compare to the most popular name today, Liam, with 20,000 births.
Gender Neutral Names
Most popular gender neutral baby names
Gender neutral names have been rising in popularity. To find gender ambiguous names, we calculated male-to-female ratio for each baby name. The closer to 1 the more gender neutral a name is. We filtered this ratio to be between 0.8 and 1.2 and then sorted to reveal the most popular gender neutral names are Charlie, Finley, Blake, Dakota, and Tatum.
View the Gender Neutral Names Sheet
Lookup gender neutral names
We've created a simple tool to see how gender-neutral a name is and chart gender by name over time. Below we show how the name Charlie has evolved form being primarily a boy name to the most popular unisex name in recent years. 
Unique Baby Names
Many parents want a unique name for their baby and we can see that in the data. The distribution of baby names in the U.S. is extremely long tail and baby names are becoming more unique over time. But how unique is too unique? If you want a unique name for your baby, we've created a simple tool that lets you filter to level of uniqueness.
Unique Baby Names Tool
On the Unique Names sheet, you can easily adjust the filters to find a unique name that is the right amount of unique you are looking for. In the default filters below, we see that Mayla, Leen, Glory, Ellia, and Dawson are unique names that are not popular but also not obscure. 
Throwback baby names - once popular names but now rare
One potential approach to picking a baby name is to choose a throwback baby name. These are unique names that were once popular but are now rare. We added a simple MAXIFS formula to our pivot table to reveal unique names that used to be popular. Top throwback names are Debra, Carol, Cheryl, Kathy, and Tammy. Adjust the filters to find the best baby name for your newborn. 
U.S. baby names are becoming more unique
There is a huge number of unique baby names each year. Every year more than 30,000 different names are born in the U.S. The number of unique birth names each year rose steadily until 2008 and has dropped slightly since. Below we chart the count of the most popular name each year (yellow dots in chart). We can see that the popularity of the most popular name has steadily declined since the 1950s when the most popular name had nearly 100K births/year.
Conclusion
There are infinite ways to analyze baby names to find a baby name you like best. Don't stress. The name is the easy part! If you're struggling to pick a baby name, hopefully the baby names spreadsheet, charts, and tools sparks some inspiration. Good Luck!
View the Baby Names Spreadsheet
Data Sources
The primary data source for this baby names dataset is the Social Security Administration - SSA baby names dataset. Data has been updated as of February 2025 with the most recent data available.