Welcome to Nancy’s Baby Names, which has been publishing fun, fact-based baby name content since 2006!
Blog
Want in-depth information about certain names? Take a look at the blog, which features thousands of posts in various categories. Here are a few examples:
- How did The Jackson 5 influence baby names in the early 1970s?
- Baby born into Lear family, named Shanda
- What popularized the baby name Tristan in the 1990s?
- West Virginia family with 17 children (16 consecutive sons!)
- How did Charles Lindbergh influence baby names in 1927?
The latest posts are listed in the sidebar. (If you’re on a phone, just scroll down to see the sidebar.)
Timeline
Want to take a look at historically significant baby names from years past? Click over to the timeline, or start with one of the following:
- 2001, the year the new millennium began
- 1991, the year the Cold War ended
- 1975, the year of the fall of Saigon
- 1969, the year of the moon landing
- 1956, the year Elvis hit it big
- 1945, the year WWII ended
Directory
Want to browse through tens of thousands of baby names, including every single name that’s ever appeared in the U.S. baby name data? Check out the directory:
From the directory, you can easily access each name’s popularity graph and data table.
[Latest update: Feb. 2026]