About NameRanky
NameRanky (네임랭키) is a reference site for baby name statistics, built entirely on data that governments already publish. The US section uses the Social Security Administration's Popular Baby Names files. The Korean section uses birth-registration statistics from the Supreme Court of Korea. We keep the two apart rather than merging them into one ranking, because they are collected by different agencies on different terms and a combined table would imply a comparability that does not exist.
What is here
- United States, 2008 to 2025. Yearly rankings for boys, girls, and overall, with 345 names having their own page showing rank history, peak year, and birth counts.
- All 51 states and DC for 2025, from SSA's separate state file, plus a year by year history of each state's top names. Every national name page also shows where that name concentrates, by state and by census region. This is the part most name sites either skip or put behind a subscription.
- Korea, 2008 to 2026, with 96 name pages carrying per-syllable hanja candidates, their readings, and romanization.
- Both countries have year archives, risers and fallers, head to head comparisons, and search.
What is deliberately not here
No numerology, astrology, lucky-name scoring, or naming advice. There is no verifiable source for any of it, and putting it on the same page as government counts would make both less trustworthy.
No asserted meaning for Korean names. One Korean name maps to many possible character combinations and the actual choice lives only in that family's register, so we list the permitted candidates instead of picking one and calling it the meaning.
No estimated numbers anywhere. Where a source withholds data we say so. SSA suppresses any name under five occurrences in a state and year, and the Korean court publishes only the top twenty per year. We do not fill either gap with a guess, because a table that mixes measured and invented values cannot be trusted anywhere.
How current it is
SSA releases the previous year annually, usually in the first half of the following year, and past years do not change once published. That is why the latest US year here sits a year behind the latest Korean year: Korean statistics can be queried mid-year, so a year still in progress appears as a running total, labelled as such with its cut-off date.
Processing rules are documented on methodology, and each source's licence and update cadence on data sources.
Corrections
If a number here disagrees with the source, tell us. We fix processing errors and note what changed. If our figure matches the source and the source is wrong, we cannot change that and will point you to the agency. Details on contact.
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