TheNameDBThe Baby Name Game: Higher or Lower
Think you know which baby names are the most popular? Test your knowledge against real U.S. birth data from 1880 to today.
How to Play
You'll see two baby names side by side. The left name shows its total number of births since 1880. The right name's count is hidden.
Your job: guess whether the right name had more or fewer babies than the left.
Play all 100 rounds and see how high you can score!
How Popular Is That Name?
Every name in this game comes from the Social Security Administration's baby name database, which tracks every name given to five or more babies in the United States each year since 1880. That's over 144 years and hundreds of millions of births.
Some names will surprise you. Classic names like Mary and James have millions of bearers, while trendy names like Jayden rocketed from obscurity to the top 10 in a single generation. Can you tell which names were given to more babies?