Most Popular Boy Names (1880-2020)

This video shows the most popular boy names between the years 1880 and 2020.

[Highley]

Once again John, Paul, and George were mentioned but Ringo was not.

[BK-ouky]

Let’s take a moment to appreciate how hard William has fought to make his comeback

[grymjaw]

Parents throughout history: “What do we name our sweet newborn son?”
Bible: *”I got you fam”*

[dewilew]

It’s interesting that Joseph hasn’t had the widespread popularity that Mary has had. Literally 108 years of being the number one girls name, and even after that, it was still in the top five for years.

[metaldisector]

Kind of surprised to see that Ryan or Brian never made the graph.

[lisahumphries]

Surprised Steven or Stephen wasn’t there. I know many with that name.
Maybe the spelling differentiations were counted separately.

[thegizzardofmars]

It's interesting how these are less subject to trends compared to the girls' names.

It's the same handful of names throughout the 140 year period, and seldom does one take a huge lead over the others.

[sandalwhich]

I'm surprised "Jason" never made the list. Seemed like a pretty common name at one time.

[PhantomPhoenix]

I feel parents were super lazy when it came to naming their sons. "What you you think we should name him?" "Eh Michael's fine."

[kennypacheco]

There were about 4 kids on my hockey team named Tyler pretty much every year. Very shocked that Tyler didn’t make an appearance on this.

[arctrainertrex]

Was anyone else tired of hearing John, William, and James while reading American history?
Edit:Okay guys I get it I was just joking!

[giulio]

In Italy the most popular male name in the population (not the new borns, the whole population) is Joseph (Giuseppe), while the most popular female name is Mary, Maria (we are very religious). I'm named Giulio Maria Giuseppe (Jules Mary Joseph. Mary is a female name but we can use it as a 2nd name), so I have both the names. XD

[JuicyJoey]

Michael: I am superior

Muhammad: hold my tikka masala

[NixV]

I feel like I just watched a redemption arch movie: The rise and fall, and rise again of William.
William was top 10 for 98 years; from the top 1 in 1880, to slowly lose steam and climb down the ranks to top 10 in 1978, then drops off in 1979, then made a comeback in 1997, to slowly and steadily climb up to top 4 before the end at 2020. What a trip!

[createdfit]

Gotta love the Johns in the world. I feel most popular male names are from the Bible. The same ones never go out of style.

[imagamer]

William in 1888: “ You tryna dethrone me from spot on number 1, but you Jonathan you lose, so best thing you haven’t won”

[iliketurtles]

This can't be for the us. The name Joshua was crazy popular in the 80's.

[appalachiangunman]

I have a hard time believing that Josh didn’t even make the top ten for the late eighties and early nineties. I was born in 89 and there were more boys named Josh than any other name I can think of.

[Mecha]

Interesting I've never in my 30 years have met a Liam or Noah in person, always just friends of friends in passing.

[wresker]

I guess Adolf never really caught on...