Share of newborns in the United States who were given one of the top-10 first names of the decade, by sex and birth decade, 1880sā2010s. Field: births in the United Stated from 1880 to 2019, N = 372 948 994. Source: Social Security 2020. Note: The first names of people who were born before 1937 or of those who never applied for a Social Security card or did apply without specifying their place of birth are not included in the data.