Most Common Boy Names in the US

Top 100 of 13,385 boy names with at least 100 people alive

Boy Names by First Letter

These are the 100 boy names with the most people alive in the United States today, estimated from Social Security birth records since 1880 and the share of each birth year still alive. A name counts as a boy name when more than 80% of the people alive with it are male. The peak year is the year the most babies got the name. For names most popular before 1940, see the vintage boy names.

#	Name	People alive	Peak year
1	Michael	3,595,413	1957
2	James	2,933,167	1947
3	John	2,737,543	1947
4	David	2,705,330	1955
5	Robert	2,587,916	1947
6	William	2,184,188	1947
7	Christopher	1,901,526	1984
8	Joseph	1,681,563	1956
9	Daniel	1,627,478	1985
10	Matthew	1,532,905	1983
11	Thomas	1,456,153	1952
12	Richard	1,444,184	1946
13	Anthony	1,208,050	1990
14	Charles	1,200,833	1947
15	Joshua	1,196,609	1989
16	Andrew	1,132,748	1987
17	Mark	1,089,235	1960
18	Steven	1,051,174	1956
19	Kevin	1,044,098	1963
20	Brian	1,032,499	1972
21	Jason	979,329	1977
22	Ryan	947,873	1985
23	Jacob	928,992	1998
24	Timothy	910,454	1959
25	Nicholas	843,187	1995
26	Jeffrey	820,282	1962
27	Jonathan	816,854	1988
28	Paul	812,023	1957
29	Eric	797,236	1970
30	Kenneth	779,306	1957
31	Justin	754,068	1988
32	Brandon	742,477	1992
33	Benjamin	719,177	1989
34	Alexander	675,601	1993
35	Scott	654,995	1971
36	Ronald	653,519	1947
37	Donald	650,028	1934
38	Stephen	646,037	1952
39	Samuel	627,417	2001
40	Tyler	601,736	1994
41	Gary	601,058	1952
42	Edward	590,424	1924
43	Gregory	576,069	1962
44	Aaron	565,845	1989
45	Patrick	551,086	1964
46	George	548,028	1921
47	Nathan	539,802	2004
48	Adam	536,830	1984
49	Zachary	533,962	1993
50	Noah	518,382	2024
51	Jose	517,557	2002
52	Larry	499,123	1947
53	Ethan	479,204	2004
54	Kyle	468,041	1990
55	Christian	454,065	1996
56	Dylan	426,499	2001
57	Jeremy	421,847	1977
58	Jack	419,138	1927
59	Austin	419,092	1995
60	Logan	410,624	2007
61	Dennis	407,542	1952
62	Sean	398,218	1990
63	Peter	389,822	1957
64	Douglas	387,602	1957
65	Henry	385,094	2025
66	Gabriel	384,819	2008
67	Jerry	367,285	1947
68	Elijah	365,846	2011
69	Raymond	359,165	1924
70	Liam	355,769	2024
71	Bryan	355,124	1985
72	Frank	343,157	1918
73	Keith	338,452	1957
74	Mason	337,215	2011
75	Cameron	334,711	2000
76	Jesse	333,013	1981
77	Lucas	324,299	2017
78	Juan	323,302	2005
79	Caleb	317,109	2002
80	Shawn	310,174	1971
81	Luke	309,696	2014
82	Isaac	300,049	2007
83	Jackson	286,450	2013
84	Cody	285,627	1992
85	Travis	283,106	1989
86	Bradley	279,001	1980
87	Evan	278,820	2007
88	Carlos	273,798	2001
89	Jayden	273,372	2009
90	Luis	271,402	2007
91	Alan	270,327	1955
92	Hunter	269,836	2000
93	Adrian	269,046	2008
94	Randy	264,640	1956
95	Vincent	259,741	1962
96	Aiden	257,454	2009
97	Roger	257,337	1953
98	Alex	252,896	1993
99	Ian	248,948	2005
100	Nathaniel	248,680	2002

To see every name, not only the most common, browse names by letter, decade or state. The guide Most Common Male Names in the USA looks at how these names have changed over time.