Born in 1982
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1982
Girls
- Jennifer
- Jessica
- Amanda
- Sarah
- Melissa
- Nicole
- Stephanie
- Elizabeth
- Crystal
- Amy
- Michelle
- Heather
- Tiffany
- Kimberly
- Rebecca
- Angela
- Ashley
- Amber
- Christina
- Erin
- Rachel
- Laura
- Lisa
- Emily
- Kelly
Boys
- Michael
- Christopher
- Matthew
- Jason
- David
- James
- Joshua
- John
- Robert
- Daniel
- Joseph
- Justin
- Ryan
- Brian
- William
- Jonathan
- Andrew
- Brandon
- Adam
- Eric
- Anthony
- Nicholas
- Thomas
- Timothy
- Kevin
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Lauren
- Andrea
- Sara
- Jamie
- Mary
- Danielle
- April
- Kristen
- Megan
- Erica
- Katherine
- Kristin
- Shannon
- Lindsay
- Lindsey
- Julie
- Maria
- Courtney
- Samantha
- Katie
- Christine
- Tara
- Kathryn
- Vanessa
- Brandy
- Natalie
- Monica
- Alicia
- Jacqueline
- Brandi
- Anna
- Carrie
- Allison
- Patricia
- Leslie
- Holly
- Cassandra
- Diana
- Cynthia
- Victoria
- Melanie
- Dana
- Karen
- Veronica
- Kristina
- Natasha
- Catherine
- Stacy
- Misty
- Valerie
- Susan
- Kathleen
- Candice
- Leah
- Sandra
- Erika
- Pamela
- Krystal
- Julia
- Stacey
- Heidi
- Katrina
- Tracy
- Jill
- Tina
- Latoya
- Brooke
- Alexis
- Brittany
- Dawn
- Jillian
- Margaret
- Lori
- Nichole
- Denise
Boys
- Steven
- Richard
- Jeremy
- Jeffrey
- Aaron
- Charles
- Mark
- Benjamin
- Scott
- Paul
- Nathan
- Patrick
- Stephen
- Travis
- Gregory
- Jacob
- Dustin
- Jesse
- Sean
- Kenneth
- Jose
- Kyle
- Chad
- Bryan
- Derek
- Bradley
- Shawn
- Edward
- Jared
- Zachary
- Samuel
- Peter
- Donald
- Keith
- Ronald
- Juan
- George
- Marcus
- Gary
- Alexander
- Tyler
- Phillip
- Douglas
- Joel
- Raymond
- Carlos
- Brett
- Craig
- Corey
- Nathaniel
- Antonio
- Larry
- Derrick
- Philip
- Erik
- Frank
- Todd
- Ian
- Shane
- Jordan
- Casey
- Dennis
- Gabriel
- Jeremiah
- Luis
- Brent
- Jeffery
- Cory
- Randy
- Cody
- Shaun
- Russell
- Wesley
- Victor
- Jerry
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1982.
Famous people born in 1982
Eddie Redmayne · English actorJanuary 6
Gilbert Arenas · American basketball playerJanuary 6
Lauren Cohan · American-British actressJanuary 7
Catherine, Princess of Wales · Member of the British Royal Family and princess of Wales since 2022January 9
Víctor Valdés · Spanish association football playerJanuary 14
Dwyane Wade · American basketball playerJanuary 17
Pete Buttigieg · American politicianJanuary 19
Noemi · Italian singer-songwriter and television presenterJanuary 25
Adam Lambert · American singerJanuary 29
Justin Gatlin · American sprinterFebruary 10
Li Na · Chinese tennis playerFebruary 26
Jessica Biel · American actressMarch 3
Landon Donovan · American soccer playerMarch 4
Marjorie Estiano · Brazilian actress and singerMarch 8
Thora Birch · American actressMarch 11
Jenny Slate · American actress and comedianMarch 25
Danica Patrick · American racecar driverMarch 25
Philippe Mexès · French footballerMarch 30
Chloé Zhao · Chinese filmmakerMarch 31
Cobie Smulders · Canadian actress and modelApril 3
Hayley Atwell · English and American actressApril 5
Chyler Leigh · American actress, singer and modelApril 10
Gina Carano · American actress and former mixed martial artistApril 16
Kaká · Brazilian association football playerApril 22
Kelly Clarkson · American singer-songwriterApril 24
Kirsten Dunst · American actressApril 30
Darijo Srna · Croatian footballerMay 1
Jamie Dornan · Northern Irish actorMay 1
Rebecca Hall · English actress and filmmakerMay 3
Layal Abboud · Lebanese pop singerMay 15
Vjosa Osmani · President of KosovoMay 17
Petr Čech · Czech footballerMay 20
Justine Henin · Belgian tennis playerJune 1
Yelena Isinbayeva · Russian female Olympic pole-vaulterJune 3
Yoshito Ōkubo · Japanese association football playerJune 9
Tara Lipinski · American figure skaterJune 10
Lang Lang · Chinese pianistJune 14
William, Prince of Wales · Heir apparent to the throne of the United Kingdom and 14 CommonwealthJune 21
Lizzy Caplan · American actressJune 30
Hilarie Burton · American actressJuly 1
Alberto Gilardino · Italian association football playerJuly 5
Sophia Bush · American actressJuly 8
Carli Lloyd · American soccer playerJuly 16
Priyanka Chopra · Indian actressJuly 18
Jared Padalecki · American actorJuly 19
Paul Wesley · American actorJuly 23
Elisabeth Moss · British-American actress and producerJuly 24
Brad Renfro · American actorJuly 25
Allison Mack · American former actressJuly 29
Hélder Postiga · Portuguese footballerAugust 2
Tyson Gay · American sprinterAugust 9
Devon Aoki · American actress and fashion modelAugust 10
Sebastian Stan · Romanian and American actorAugust 13
Cam Gigandet · American actorAugust 16
LeAnn Rimes · American singer and actressAugust 28
Andy Roddick · American tennis playerAugust 30
Pepe Reina · Spanish association football playerAugust 31
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya · Belarusian politician, educator, and pro-democracy activistSeptember 11
Maarten Stekelenburg · Dutch footballerSeptember 22
Lil Wayne · American rapper and singerSeptember 27
Kieran Culkin · American actorSeptember 30
Lacey Chabert · American film actress and producerSeptember 30
Ilhan Omar · American politicianOctober 4
Levon Aronian · Armenian-American chess playerOctober 6
Jermain Defoe · English association football playerOctober 7
Matt Smith · English actorOctober 28
Ahmed al-Sharaa · President of Syria since 2025October 29
Anushka Shetty · Indian actressNovember 7
Anne Hathaway · American actressNovember 12
Amar'e Stoudemire · American basketball playerNovember 16
Asafa Powell · Jamaican sprinterNovember 23
Aleksandr Kerzhakov · Russian footballerNovember 27
Lucas Black · American actorNovember 29
Elisha Cuthbert · Canadian actressNovember 30
Michael Essien · Ghanaian footballerDecember 3
Keri Hilson · American R&B singerDecember 5
Alberto Contador · Spanish professional cyclistDecember 6
Nicki Minaj · Trinidadian rapperDecember 8
Alison Brie · American actress and writerDecember 29