insights · 2026-11-05

Born in the ’80s? You almost certainly beat your name’s .com. Born since 2000? 98% of you didn’t.

All 1,280 of the most common US first names since 1950 have their .com taken.

Kids’ names: the .com came first. Parents’ names: the people did

The .com is older than this share of them

Aiden
99.7%
Isabella
98%
Liam
97%
Ava
96%
Jackson
95%
Sophia
94%
Jayden
94%
Madison
94%

The .com is younger than this share of them

Debra
99.6%
Cheryl
99.2%
Tammy
99.1%
Donna
98%
Susan
98%
Dawn
98%
Lori
98%
Diane
98%
Names given to 250,000+ US babies since 1950.

Aiden was barely given before the 2000s, and aiden.com has been registered since 1996: it is older than 99.7% of the Aidens born in the US since 1950. Jennifer peaked in the 1970s, and jennifer.com, registered in 1995, is younger than 91% of Jennifers. The first .com of all, symbolics.com, was registered in March 1985, so anyone born before then is older than every .com there is.

Every .com in 2025’s top ten baby names is old enough to drink

Olivia and Liam were the names given most often to American babies in 2025. olivia.com has been registered since 1995 and liam.com since 1997. The youngest in either top ten, eliana.com, has been registered since 2003: it turned 21 in 2024.

Girls, most common first

olivia
1995
charlotte
1994
emma
1992
amelia
1995
sophia
1990
mia
1995
isabella
1995
evelyn
1997
sofia
1995
eliana
2003

Boys, most common first

liam
1997
noah
1995
oliver
1994
theodore
1997
henry
1994
james
1995
elijah
1996
mateo
1996
william
1999
lucas
1997
2025’s top ten US baby names. Each line runs from the .com’s year to 2025.

Of babies born since 2000, at least 98% arrived after their name’s .com was taken

1950s0%
1960s0%
1970s0%
1980s0%
1990s31%
2000s98%
2010s99%
2020–2599%
US babies with one of the 1,280 names, by decade: born after their name’s .com. The names cover 69% to 83% of births.

For babies born in the 1990s the share is 31%; from the 2000s on, at least 98%. These are floors: a .com that lapsed and was registered again counts from its later date.

Three in four have been taken since 1994 to 1998

19871994–19982024
The year each name’s .com has been taken since.

956 of the 1,280 .coms have been registered since a year between 1994 and 1998. The newest are names that only caught on lately: Wrenley, Kataleya, Jaylani.

What it means if you’re naming something

A common first name’s .com is gone. The lookup above counts how many of its other endings are taken, and how many of those are for sale. Before you pay for one, appraise it. If you need a name you can register today, find one that’s still free.

Sources: US Social Security Administration, first names of US births 1950 to 2025 (every name in a year’s top 100 since 1950, and 2025’s top 500); Verisign, the .com registry, registration dates read on 2026-11-05; symbolics.com’s date from the same registry. Ending counts in the lookup: Namedesk.