Ready to take a look at history through the lens of names?
The Baby Name Timeline is a collection of thousands of historically popular/trendy U.S. baby names. Many of these names became trendy thanks to various types of pop culture: movies, music, television, sports, news stories, politics, comic strips, video games…
Here are links to each decade:
2020s: | Here are 2020, 2021, and 2022. |
2010s | |
2000s | |
1990s | |
1980s | Here are 1984 & 1985 specifically. |
1970s | Here are 1978 & 1979 specifically. |
1960s | |
1950s | Here are 1955 & 1956 specifically. |
1940s | Here is 1943 specifically. |
1930s | |
1920s | Here are 1926 & 1927 specifically. |
1910s | Here are 1912 & 1913 specifically. |
1900s | |
1890s | Here are 1890 & 1891 specifically. |
1880s | Here are 1880, 1881, and 1882 specifically. |
Pre-1880: | Here are all the pre-1880 names. |
Please bear with me as slowly convert the decade-by-decade timeline into a more detailed year-by-year timeline!
[Latest update: Mar. 2024]