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]
List
NordPass
NordPass conducted the most breached passwords research in 2021.[2] The company gathered the top 200 worst passwords from a database of 275,699,516 passwords.
Top 20 most common passwords according to NordPass[3]
Rank
2021
1
123456
2
123456789
3
12345
4
qwerty
5
password
6
12345678
7
111111
8
123123
9
1234567890
10
1234567
11
qwerty123
12
000000
13
1q2w3e
14
aa12345678
15
abc123
16
password1
17
1234
18
qwertyuiop
19
123321
20
password123
SplashData
The Worst Passwords List is an annual list of the 25 most common passwords from each year as produced by internet security firm SplashData.[4] 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%.[5]
This article needs to be updated. The reason given is: What about years 2020-2024?. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.(September 2024)
Top 25 most common passwords by year according to SplashData
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.[15]
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.[16]
^ abThe presence of "adobe123" and "photoshop" on 2013's list was skewed by the large number of Adobe passwords included in the collected data due to a major security breach in 2013 that affected over 48 million Adobe users.[8][14]
