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The top-10 club: every name that made it

100 names · 50 girls · 50 boys · records through 2025

Since 1880, the national top-10 has been naming's most exclusive room. Surprisingly few names have ever been inside.

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This guide has 100 names: 50 girl names and 50 boy names. Names whose all-time peak rank is #10 or better, ordered by the year of their peak. 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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Here is the full membership, ordered by when each name peaked — from Gilded Age fixtures to this year's arrivals, with today's rank alongside.

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Girl names

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Boy names

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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