The names with the oldest living bearers

Where the median living American carrying the name is well past retirement.

Every name here still has at least five thousand living bearers, and the typical one is decades older than the typical American. These are names that were common once and are now barely given at all, so the population carrying them ages a year for every year that passes. Ages are computed with the survival-weighted method.

Name	Median age	Living estimate	Births since 1880
	82	13,200	136,984
	81	8,400	73,465
	81	15,700	177,668
	81	5,900	27,956
	79	10,900	34,919
	79	11,400	38,478
Betty	79	355,400	1,004,857
	79	9,500	22,967
	79	8,400	29,321
	79	8,300	47,491
Mildred	79	69,100	452,998
	78	22,500	170,877
	78	66,900	110,952
	78	74,600	212,776
	78	39,600	280,412
	78	9,900	53,466
	78	40,600	140,855
	77	9,100	87,648
Doris	77	137,200	465,789
Dorothy	77	272,700	1,115,908
	77	6,700	20,417
	77	6,000	16,583
	77	82,700	212,097
	77	109,700	335,594
	77	15,200	85,587
	77	22,200	160,067
	77	11,000	55,646
	77	5,700	30,275
	77	65,100	127,161
	77	5,800	18,828
Shirley	77	330,400	695,934
	77	43,900	226,602
	76	17,100	70,764
	76	57,000	118,251
	76	7,700	16,134
	76	13,600	55,187
	76	8,300	40,894
	76	48,200	340,547
Joan	76	245,700	488,939
Judith	76	307,400	455,955

Computed from SSA birth records through 2025, using the definitions on the methodology page. Names without a link do not have a page yet — pages are released gradually, as explained here.