How popular is a name? The WhoScore!!

The whizzes at the WhoUSearchingFor research labs have combed through billions of public records, analyzing hundreds of millions of people's names and using both various public domain data sources combined with our own proprietary algorithms and people search data they have devised a unique index that scores the popularity of a name? We call this the WhoScore .

The WhoScore is a measure (index) of the frequency with which popular People's Names occur in the population of United States. The lowest WhoScore is 0 and the highest score is 1,000.

Guess the most popular name in the United States?

It's James Smith; not surprising is it. James Smith has the distinction of a WhoScore equal to 1,000. The most popular woman's name in the United States is Mary Smith; Mary Smith has a WhoScore of 793.3. To see more popular names and their WhoScore visit our popular index.

We have excluded many uncommon and less popular names from our People and Popular indexes. To search for less common names, browse our Last Name index or you can always simply enter any name in the search box.