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Presidential first names, not surnames

27 names · 0 girls · 27 boys · records through 2025

The site already has a guide to presidential surnames used as first names — Madison, Lincoln, Carter. This is the other list: what the presidents were actually called.

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This guide has 27 names: 0 girl names and 27 boy names. A curated set of US presidents' given names matched against the latest US records; only names in real use appear. Built from US Social Security birth records through 2025. Tap + beside any name to keep it on your shortlist as you read.

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It is a narrow and very old pool. James, John and William account for a remarkable share of it, and the whole set is dominated by names that were already common when their bearers were born.

Several are in the middle of a comeback — Theodore, Abraham and Calvin among them — and each name's live rank is shown alongside.

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Every rank and count here is published by the US Social Security Administration and refreshed each year when the new figures land. The method is stated at the top of this page.

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