Can you name the 100 most common first names among all living American women?

created by rockgolf

Enter a female first name in the box below
Correctly named names will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Common names ranked past 100 are included as bonus answers.
Also try: Baby Names: Historical
NOTE: There are 200 bonus answers - names 101-300 on the list. If you find the bonuses are distracting, or just want to see the remaining names, entering the answer "EXTRA" will reveal all 200.

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Estimated total	Name
2,498,847
1,914,143
1,369,157
1,351,808
1,316,364
1,276,877
1,139,997
1,103,013
1,092,264
1,060,658
1,058,139
939,307
933,397
922,989
902,550
898,542
849,660
840,838
832,322
828,958
822,998
803,428
766,315
763,348
753,179

Estimated total	Name
738,305
724,553
710,857
685,581
682,197
669,980
662,994
651,003
624,032
606,431
594,329
592,269
592,144
582,128
558,966
553,923
551,402
547,162
544,557
532,179
527,753
500,819
497,087
495,993
484,131

Estimated total	Name
475,633
474,274
473,867
473,440
471,186
464,139
462,675
451,608
448,808
440,276
439,515
414,406
414,223
405,878
398,006
397,989
397,076
393,068
390,164
386,388
379,181
375,642
374,667
368,688
365,743

Estimated total	Name
365,282
362,599
359,781
355,782
353,815
352,446
348,628
345,854
343,281
335,699
334,381
332,620
332,392
331,367
329,750
325,741
321,332
320,870
319,790
319,513
317,550
314,493
308,637
308,631
306,260
297,846
296,736
295,189
294,765
292,673
285,856
284,320
282,204
282,117
282,018
280,298
279,840
279,277
278,404
276,474
273,214
272,041
269,985
269,771
264,329
259,435
259,362
258,619
257,080
257,015
247,863
247,684
243,976
243,473
243,221
240,725
237,617
237,151
235,885
232,454
230,801
230,077
229,726
229,464
228,813
226,629
223,959
222,188
218,864
218,143
218,027
213,673
213,610
211,579
209,916
209,019
207,923
207,161
206,696
203,021
199,964
197,925
195,611
194,421
191,589
190,987
189,036
187,506
183,193
183,156
180,538
179,667
177,663
176,543
174,987
174,212
174,034
171,876
171,165
169,114
167,728
167,656
167,522
166,511
164,802
164,661
163,723
162,990
162,922
161,205
161,033
160,240
160,060
159,798
158,490
158,192
157,116
154,177
153,089
152,910
151,277
151,249
151,107
150,889
149,569
148,946
148,398
147,503
144,361
144,198
143,115
142,875
142,718
139,943
139,805
139,528
135,360
134,784
134,624
134,554
134,080
133,176
132,639
132,602
131,976
131,886
131,309
131,091
131,067
131,062
131,015
130,947
130,882
130,790
128,563
127,718
127,717
126,394
126,224
126,158
125,441
125,431
125,317
124,243
124,227
124,188
124,144
123,591
123,557
123,166
123,071
122,887
122,556
121,500
119,360
118,209
118,106
116,730
116,030
115,725
115,500
115,197
114,648
114,558
113,881
112,573
111,673
109,690
109,516
109,410
109,286
109,153
108,645
108,506
106,459
105,308
104,475
103,779
103,174
103,045
102,741
102,245
102,206
101,984
101,441
101,224
100,660
100,190
100,121
99,741
99,229
98,937
98,374
98,326
97,897
97,851
97,471
97,270
96,864
96,705
96,324
95,634
95,634
95,537
95,536

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American Women Quiz

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Created Oct 14, 2011 in Miscellaneous
Featured Apr 22, 2012
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	rockgolf:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 04:07 GMT		21 points
	To repeat the archived comment: There are a number of quizzes that give baby name lists for a particular year. But I wanted to go bigger. Not just babies. Toddlers, tweens, teens, young adults, middle-agers, geezers – overall, what are the most common names for all living Americans? The way I did this was to first find a breakdown of ages of the general population. The IBM page linked at the top of the page provided me with the most detailed breakdown, in 5-year groupings. Using those age ranges, I went to the Social Security Baby Names by Birth Year page and got top 1000 names for the middle of the age range and the percentage of all males with that name. For example, there are about 21,539,000 Americans between the ages of 20 and 24. Half those or about 10.769 million are female. If you’re between 20 & 24 you were born between 1991 and 1987, so I used the baby name figures from 1989 as being representative of that era. In that year, 0.7711% of all baby girls were named Rachel. So among the 10.769 million females 20-24 years old, 0.7711% or about 83,000 are “Rachel”s. That above process was repeated for the top 1000 names across different 13 age groups. In total, it identified over 2800 different first names and accounts for a total of 126 million American females. The numbers were then totaled and sorted using the wonderful Pivot table function in Excel.

	laschmela:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 04:14 GMT		8 points
	Ohh too bad in the published version they cut the game in half. I love the "in the weeds" names that only a baby-name-game-obsessed sporcler would guess!

	Westley:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 04:19 GMT		24 points
	How could almost 75% have gotten all 100 names when some of the names are in the 30% range?

	strags11:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 04:23 GMT		52 points
	I think it would have been better to publish this game in its original form, with 300 answers in 20 minutes, than to cut it down to 100/10 plus the longest trail of bonus answers in Sporcle history. Just my $0.02.

	rockgolf:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 04:26 GMT		3 points
	@Westley: As laschmela alludes to, the original quiz had more names, 300 in fact. So that 75% were those who originally got 100-300 names. It looks weird, I agree, but the percentage will start to look more normal as more people take the test.

	Shortney87:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 05:32 GMT		33 points
	I think I got more bonus answers than actual ones lol

	EatMorePossum:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 05:38 GMT		1 point
	Fifty-eight of 100, plus FIFTY-TWO bonuses. Wow. Nice game. Thank you.

	rockgolf:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 05:55 GMT		5 points
	There are 200 bonus answers. And a secret word will unlock them all!

	IQ_Unknown:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 10:25 GMT		5 points
	How did I manage to get Sarah, but not Sara?!?!?!

	Triffid:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 10:51 GMT		23 points
	I found the bonuses a distraction.

	tndawg:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 13:05 GMT		8 points
	nice url

	philfallout:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 13:24 GMT		1 point
	I only got 28 normal answers but 34 bonus answers. D'oh...

	barleduc:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 13:25 GMT		11 points
	I'm with Triffid. Although I know the correct counter is right there, when I'm "in the zone" and going fast, I'm just paying attention to if the word enters or not. I was excited I was doing so well, only to find out about half of my answers were bonuses.

	DrGrammar:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 13:32 GMT		7 points
	I hate bonus answers. Useless. Distracting. Time waster. Sometimes you're trying to type in something longer and the shorter version goes in. (Say Alexandra, and you get Alexa. So now you have to type in twice.)

	NotYou:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 14:04 GMT		6 points
	If we can't have the quiz in its original format, with all 300 answers, I like that the extra 200 were bonus answers. It actually saved me time. I got 59 bonus answers. Having them take as a bonus, and therefore not having to backspace them, more than made up for the time I spent retyping the beginning of a few longer answers. It also helps me because once the name's "taken" in some way, it clears from my head and I don't keep rethinking of it and retyping it and having it still be wrong. I can easily see myself having typed something like "Anne" five or six times before remembering that it's wrong otherwise.

	Colmar:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 14:34 GMT		11 points
	Try typing Joanna! (((Jo)an)n) all get registered as bonuses before you get to discover that Joanna is just a bonus as well!

	darlingnicki:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 14:43 GMT		3 points
	Seriously, I guessed almost as many bonus answers as I did main answers!

	eab21:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 14:51 GMT		4 points
	Five globes solely for the URL.

	rockgolf:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 15:32 GMT		4 points
	If you want to see the (200) bonus answers to either see what you missed or just get the darn things out of your way, enter the word "EXTRA" as an answer.

	Degree:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 15:56 GMT		2 points
	Like several others, I too am pretty sure I got as many bonus answers as actual answers. How can we all be getting so many of those if there are supposedly less of them on the planet? :D

	BiloxiSean:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 15:59 GMT		-2 points
	As an African American, I was surprised Keisha wasn't on this list.