How many people share your name?
Type your first and last name and NameCrestly estimates how many people in the United States carry that exact combination — plus how rare it is, who else has it, and how the name has risen or fallen since 1880.
Name Statistics Tool
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Similar first names
Who carries this first name
Where the name is strongest
Popularity over time
Fun facts
Birth year & zodiac insights
Optional — add a birth year to see how your name lined up with the year you were born.
A population estimate, not a people search
NameCrestly does not look anyone up. It works out, statistically, how often a first name and a surname land on the same person across the country — the same way a demographer would.
Two independent records
First names come from Social Security birth registrations going back to 1880. Surnames come from the Census Bureau’s surname file. They are separate datasets, so we combine them with probability rather than matching real individuals.
Adjusted for who is still here
Birth records count everyone ever born with a name. We apply survival rates by birth year so the figure reflects people likely alive today — which matters enormously for names that peaked decades ago.
Nothing leaves your device
The datasets are downloaded to your browser and the arithmetic happens there. We never receive the name you typed, and there is no account, no profile and no search history on our side.
Using the tool
Type a first name
Suggestions appear as you type, with a rough count beside each one.
Add a surname
Any of the 162,253 surnames recorded by the Census Bureau.
Press find out now
The result appears immediately — no page reload, no waiting.
Read the breakdown
Rarity, gender split, typical age, strongest states and a popularity curve.
The most common first names in America
Ranked by how many people are estimated to be living with each name today.
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Why a name’s count changes so much by generation
Two names can be equally famous and still produce wildly different numbers here. The reason is timing. A name that dominated the 1950s has had seventy years of attrition; a name that took off after 2010 is carried almost entirely by people who are still children. Linda is a good example — it was the single most popular girls’ name in America in 1947, yet far fewer Lindas are alive today than the raw birth totals suggest.
The opposite happens with newer names. Parents revive old names in waves, so a name can look ancient and still belong mostly to toddlers. When your result shows a typical age, that is the median age of everyone estimated to be carrying the name right now — often the most revealing number on the page.
Why surnames behave differently
Surnames are not chosen each generation, so they move slowly and cluster geographically and culturally. The Census Bureau publishes its surname file with a breakdown of how each name distributes across racial and ethnic groups, which is why some surnames are concentrated in particular communities while others are spread evenly. Our surname frequency checker shows that breakdown for any name in the file.
What the combined figure assumes
To combine a first name and a surname we treat them as independent: the chance of both landing on the same person is the chance of each, multiplied. That is a reasonable first approximation and it is how this kind of estimate is normally done, but it is an approximation. In reality naming is correlated with ancestry, so pairings that are common within one community — a Spanish first name with a Spanish surname, for instance — are undercounted, and mismatched pairings are overcounted. The methodology page sets out exactly how each number is produced and where it is weakest.
Other things you can look up
Name Rarity Checker
Find out whether your name is everyday, uncommon or genuinely rare.
Baby Name Popularity by Year
Chart a name's births for every year from 1880 to 2025.
Name Age Distribution
See the likely age range of people who share your first name.
Last Name Frequency Checker
See how many Americans share your surname, with its national rank.
Common questions
How many people in the US have my name?
That is exactly what the tool estimates. It takes the number of people thought to be living with your first name, the number with your surname, and works out how often the two would be expected to coincide in a population of about 342 million. The answer is a statistical estimate with a genuine margin of error, not a count of real records.
How accurate are the numbers?
They are good for the scale of an answer and poor for precision. If the tool says roughly 3,000 people share your name, treat that as somewhere in the low thousands rather than an exact headcount. Three things limit accuracy: Social Security records only cover births registered in the US, so immigrants are underrepresented; the Census surname file is from 2010 and we rescale it to today’s population; and first and last names are not truly independent.
Why does my rare name return nothing?
Both source datasets suppress very small counts to protect privacy. The Social Security Administration only publishes a name for a given year once at least five babies received it, and the Census Bureau only lists surnames held by 100 or more people. If your name falls below those thresholds it genuinely is rare — it is just not in the public record we can draw on.
Does this work for names from outside the United States?
Only insofar as those names appear in US records. A name common in Poland or Nigeria will show a US figure that reflects American registrations, not its worldwide use. Both datasets are US-only, so every number on the site should be read as “in the United States”.
Do you store or sell what I search?
No. The name datasets are downloaded to your browser and the calculation runs on your device, so the name you type is never sent to us. Recent searches, if you see them, are kept in your own browser’s local storage and clearing them removes them for good.
Where does the data come from, and how current is it?
First names come from the Social Security Administration’s national baby-name files, which currently run from 1880 through 2025. Surnames come from the Census Bureau’s 2010 surname file, the most recent one published. Both are public-domain US government datasets, and we refresh the site when new editions are released.