The Mother Of All Baby Names Lists – Top Baby Names Of The 20th Century.
We often see “top lists” of baby names — top ten names of 2005, the trendiest, the coolest, the most popular names of the decade — and so on. Readers find these lists endlessly fascinating, often using such lists to help them choose the name for their own offspring. But now, in what is most likely the first appearance of this set of data, comes the mother of all names lists: The Top 100 Baby Names Of The 20th Century (USA). For parents who want to know what the really enduring names are, at least in the United States, this is the list to beat all lists.
This definitive compilation of data, spanning the years from 1900 to 1999, is based on an analysis performed by the publishers of the baby names website http://www.babynamesgarden.com. This “best of the century” list, based on Social Security Card applications for births in the United States, determines and ranks the top 50 boys’ names and the top 50 girls’ names spanning the entire 20th century. It was compiled using the same methodology as used by the Social Security Administration in...