Worst & Most Common Passwords Of The Year 2021 [Change Yours Now]

NordPass has released a list of the Top 200 most common passwords. This is an annual list released every year by the password manager company to see the year’s worst passwords. Not much has changed since last year, but it is high time people start focusing on their cybersecurity, especially since cyber attacks have continued to increase in numbers this year.

The most common password is yet again “123456,” the same as last year. Funnily enough, “password” is the 5th most common one on the list and is used by more than 20 million people. Just for comparison, you can also view the top 200 most common passwords of 2020 from here.

The following are the most common passwords used by people in the year 2021. In contrast, hackers can crack almost all of the top 200 passwords in less than a second. However, some took 3 hours to crack, such as myspace1 (rank 54), 1g2w3e4r (rank 103), gwerty123 (rank 104), and michelle (rank 123).

The reason for using such simple passwords can be to remember them better. In this case, it is way better to use a password manager, which can be quite convenient and secure at the same time. The list also includes some odd and funny passwords such as:

iloveyou (rank 22)
dragon (rank 38)
monkey (rank 41)
princess (rank 61)
computer (rank 67)
samsung (rank 78)
killer (rank 79)
master (rank 82)
pokemon (rank 111)
welcome (rank 120)
hello (rank 126)
naruto (rank 135)
letmein (rank 152)
secret (rank 154)
xxx (rank 200)

Top 20 Worst and Most Common Passwords Of 2021

Rank	Password	Time to crack	Used by
1	123456	Less than 1 Second	103,170,552
2	123456789	Less than 1 Second	46,027,530
3	12345	Less than 1 Second	32,955,431
4	qwerty	Less than 1 Second	22,317,280
5	password	Less than 1 Second	20,958,297
6	12345678	Less than 1 Second	14,745,771
7	111111	Less than 1 Second	13,354,149
8	123123	Less than 1 Second	10,244,398
9	1234567890	Less than 1 Second	9,646,621
10	1234567	Less than 1 Second	9,396,813
11	qwerty123	Less than 1 Second	8,933,334
12	000000	Less than 1 Second	8,377,094
13	1q2w3e	Less than 1 Second	8,204,700
14	aa12345678	2 Seconds	8,098,805
15	abc123	Less than 1 Second	7,184,645
16	password1	Less than 1 Second	5,771,586
17	1234	Less than 1 Second	5,544,971
18	qwertyuiop	Less than 1 Second	5,197,596
19	123321	Less than 1 Second	5,168,171
20	password123	Less than 1 Second	4,681,010

Improve your security

The reason for using such simple passwords can be to remember them better. In this case, it is way better to use a password manager, which can be pretty convenient and secure at the same time. You can check out our guide for the best free password manager software to use. Users can also even benefit from adding two-factor authentication to their online accounts, especially when it comes to banking or any other kind of financial accounts.