List of the most common passwords

This is a list of the most common passwords, discovered in various data breaches. Common passwords generally are not recommended on account of low password strength.^[1]

NordPass, a password manager, has released its sixth annual list of the 200 most common passwords, highlighting persistent trends in password selection.^[2] The top twenty most frequently used passwords are:

The Worst Passwords List is an annual list of the 25 most common passwords from each year as produced by internet security firm SplashData.^[3] Since 2011, the firm has published the list based on data examined from millions of passwords leaked in data breaches, mostly in North America and Western Europe, over each year. In the 2016 edition, the 25 most common passwords made up more than 10% of the surveyed passwords, with the most common password of 2016, "123456", making up 4%.^[4]

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Password manager Keeper compiled its own list of the 25 most common passwords in 2016, from 25 million passwords leaked in data breaches that year.^[14]

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) compiled its own list of the 20 most common passwords in 2019, from 100 million passwords leaked in data breaches that year.^[15]

• Password cracking
• Wikipedia:10,000 most common passwords

• Skullsecurity list of breached password collections
• Have I Been Pwned list of passwords that have appeared in data breaches, hosted by NCSC