By when it first reached the top 100

The decade in which a name first appeared inside the top 100 of any published list.

The first time Namewise's registrar data shows the name inside a top 100 — not the first time it was used, and not necessarily the first time it was that widely given. Norway publishes from 1945 and Scotland from 2014, so an early entry partly reflects which registrars were publishing at all. Names that never reached a top 100 appear in none of these bands.

1,607 records across 9 bands, ordered by earliest entry first.

• First reached the top 100 in the 1940s

  Names whose earliest top-100 ranking in Namewise's registrar data falls between 1940 and 1949.

  225 names

• First reached the top 100 in the 1950s

  Names whose earliest top-100 ranking in Namewise's registrar data falls between 1950 and 1959.

  301 names

• First reached the top 100 in the 1960s

  Names whose earliest top-100 ranking in Namewise's registrar data falls between 1960 and 1969.

  187 names

• First reached the top 100 in the 1970s

  Names whose earliest top-100 ranking in Namewise's registrar data falls between 1970 and 1979.

  148 names

• First reached the top 100 in the 1980s

  Names whose earliest top-100 ranking in Namewise's registrar data falls between 1980 and 1989.

  132 names

• First reached the top 100 in the 1990s

  Names whose earliest top-100 ranking in Namewise's registrar data falls between 1990 and 1999.

  219 names

• First reached the top 100 in the 2000s

  Names whose earliest top-100 ranking in Namewise's registrar data falls between 2000 and 2009.

  182 names

• First reached the top 100 in the 2010s

  Names whose earliest top-100 ranking in Namewise's registrar data falls between 2010 and 2019.

  128 names

• First reached the top 100 in the 2020s

  Names whose earliest top-100 ranking in Namewise's registrar data falls between 2020 and 2029.

  85 names