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Born in 1981

The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.

Top 100 baby names of 1981

Girls
  1. Jennifer
  2. Jessica
  3. Amanda
  4. Sarah
  5. Melissa
  6. Amy
  7. Nicole
  8. Stephanie
  9. Elizabeth
  10. Heather
  11. Michelle
  12. Rebecca
  13. Kimberly
  14. Tiffany
  15. Angela
  16. Crystal
  17. Christina
  18. Lisa
  19. Erin
  20. Amber
  21. Laura
  22. Rachel
  23. Kelly
  24. Andrea
  25. April
Boys
  1. Michael
  2. Christopher
  3. Matthew
  4. Jason
  5. David
  6. Joshua
  7. James
  8. John
  9. Robert
  10. Daniel
  11. Joseph
  12. Justin
  13. Ryan
  14. Brian
  15. William
  16. Jonathan
  17. Eric
  18. Andrew
  19. Brandon
  20. Adam
  21. Nicholas
  22. Jeremy
  23. Anthony
  24. Timothy
  25. Kevin
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Sara
  2. Mary
  3. Jamie
  4. Emily
  5. Danielle
  6. Kristin
  7. Shannon
  8. Megan
  9. Ashley
  10. Lauren
  11. Erica
  12. Julie
  13. Kristen
  14. Katherine
  15. Maria
  16. Brandy
  17. Christine
  18. Courtney
  19. Katie
  20. Tara
  21. Alicia
  22. Lindsay
  23. Kathryn
  24. Monica
  25. Brandi
  26. Samantha
  27. Brooke
  28. Patricia
  29. Anna
  30. Carrie
  31. Leslie
  32. Allison
  33. Lindsey
  34. Natalie
  35. Cynthia
  36. Misty
  37. Vanessa
  38. Holly
  39. Karen
  40. Stacy
  41. Melanie
  42. Jacqueline
  43. Veronica
  44. Latoya
  45. Dana
  46. Susan
  47. Kristina
  48. Catherine
  49. Sandra
  50. Diana
  51. Pamela
  52. Tracy
  53. Jill
  54. Dawn
  55. Tina
  56. Leah
  57. Kathleen
  58. Stacey
  59. Heidi
  60. Natasha
  61. Candice
  62. Victoria
  63. Julia
  64. Valerie
  65. Wendy
  66. Lori
  67. Tanya
  68. Erika
  69. Kristy
  70. Katrina
  71. Denise
  72. Teresa
  73. Renee
  74. Christy
  75. Theresa
Boys
  1. Thomas
  2. Richard
  3. Steven
  4. Jeffrey
  5. Aaron
  6. Charles
  7. Benjamin
  8. Mark
  9. Scott
  10. Paul
  11. Nathan
  12. Jesse
  13. Patrick
  14. Stephen
  15. Travis
  16. Kenneth
  17. Dustin
  18. Jacob
  19. Sean
  20. Jose
  21. Gregory
  22. Chad
  23. Bryan
  24. Shawn
  25. Bradley
  26. Edward
  27. Kyle
  28. Derek
  29. Samuel
  30. Peter
  31. Donald
  32. Jared
  33. Keith
  34. Ronald
  35. Juan
  36. George
  37. Gary
  38. Zachary
  39. Douglas
  40. Joel
  41. Phillip
  42. Marcus
  43. Raymond
  44. Corey
  45. Alexander
  46. Carlos
  47. Craig
  48. Todd
  49. Larry
  50. Antonio
  51. Erik
  52. Jeremiah
  53. Derrick
  54. Brett
  55. Nathaniel
  56. Shane
  57. Frank
  58. Dennis
  59. Philip
  60. Casey
  61. Shaun
  62. Lucas
  63. Gabriel
  64. Brent
  65. Cory
  66. Luis
  67. Randy
  68. Jeffery
  69. Curtis
  70. Seth
  71. Tyler
  72. Jerry
  73. Russell
  74. Wesley
  75. Luke
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1981.

Famous people born in 1981

Maxi Rodríguez · Argentine association football playerJanuary 2
Jared Kushner · American businessman and real estate investorJanuary 10
Pitbull · American rapperJanuary 15
Owen Hargreaves · English association football playerJanuary 20
Maria Elena Boschi · Italian lawyer and politicianJanuary 24
Elijah Wood · American actorJanuary 28
Justin Timberlake · American singer and actorJanuary 31
Tom Hiddleston · English actorFebruary 9
Kelly Rowland · American singer, songwriter and actressFebruary 11
Paris Hilton · American media personalityFebruary 17
Joseph Gordon-Levitt · American actor and filmmakerFebruary 17
Josh Gad · American actorFebruary 23
Park Ji-sung · South Korean association football playerFebruary 25
Josh Groban · American singer and actorFebruary 27
Bryce Dallas Howard · American actress and filmmakerMarch 2
Samuel Eto'o · Cameroonian association football playerMarch 10
Péter Magyar · Hungarian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary since 2026March 16
Kolo Touré · Ivorian association football managerMarch 19
Julia Stiles · American actressMarch 28
Alessandra Ambrosio · Brazilian modelApril 11
Tulsi Gabbard · American politicianApril 12
Hayden Christensen · Canadian actorApril 19
Dmytro Kuleba · Ukrainian diplomat and politicianApril 19
Felipe Massa · Brazilian race car driverApril 25
Jessica Alba · American actress and businesswomanApril 28
Alexander Hleb · Belarusian footballerMay 1
Craig David · British singerMay 5
Daisuke Matsui · Japanese association football playerMay 11
Rami Malek · American actorMay 12
Sunny Leone · American-Canadian actress, model and former pornographic actressMay 13
Patrice Evra · French footballerMay 15
Iker Casillas · Spanish association football playerMay 20
Bryan Danielson · American professional wrestlerMay 22
Andrey Arshavin · Russian association football playerMay 29
Amy Schumer · American comedian and actressJune 1
Anna Kournikova · Russian tennis player and modelJune 7
Natalie Portman · Israeli-American actressJune 9
Anoushka Shankar · British-American musicianJune 9
Adriana Lima · Brazilian modelJune 12
Chris Evans · American actorJune 13
MS Dhoni · Indian cricket playerJuly 7
Nayib Bukele · President of El Salvador since 2019July 24
Summer Glau · American actressJuly 24
Yūichi Komano · Japanese association football playerJuly 25
Michael Carrick · English footballer and managerJuly 28
Fernando Alonso · Spanish racing driverJuly 29
Hope Solo · American soccer playerJuly 30
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex · Member of the British royal family and Duchess of Sussex since 2018August 4
Roger Federer · Swiss tennis playerAugust 8
Kofi Kingston · Ghanaian-American professional wrestlerAugust 14
Ray William Johnson · American YouTuberAugust 14
Chad Michael Murray · American actorAugust 24
Rachel Bilson · American actressAugust 25
Beyoncé · American singer-songwriterSeptember 4
Yuki Abe · Japanese association football playerSeptember 6
Jennifer Hudson · American singer, actress, model and spokespersonSeptember 12
Alexis Bledel · American actressSeptember 16
Fan Bingbing · Chinese actressSeptember 16
Serdar Berdimuhamedow · 3rd President of Turkmenistan since 2022September 22
Serena Williams · American tennis playerSeptember 26
Christina Milian · American actress and singerSeptember 26
Zlatan Ibrahimović · Swedish association football playerOctober 3
Nemanja Vidić · Serbian association football playerOctober 21
Milan Baroš · Czech association football playerOctober 28
Ivanka Trump · American businesswoman, socialite and political advisiorOctober 30
Xabi Alonso · Spanish football manager and playerNovember 25
Bruno Alves · Portuguese footballerNovember 27
Britney Spears · American singer, songwriter, actress and modelDecember 2
David Villa · Spanish footballerDecember 3
Amy Lee · American singer, pianist and songwriterDecember 13
Roman Pavlyuchenko · Russian footballerDecember 15
Krysten Ritter · American actressDecember 16
Dima Bilan · Russian pop singerDecember 24
Emilie de Ravin · Australian actressDecember 27
Sienna Miller · British-American actressDecember 28

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