Password security company SplashData has released its annual list of the most commonly used passwords on the web.

The number one spot belongs to ‘123456’, which is followed by another maddeningly obvious choice, ‘password’. In fact, these two are stalwarts of the most common passwords, having claimed the first two spots for the fifth year in a row.

The next five places are occupied by some of the easiest-to-remember (and guess) assortments of numbers. The coldness of numbers contrasts with some of the next highly-popular choices – ‘sunshine’, ‘iloveyou’ and ‘princess’, with the first and the third of them representing new additions to the list. Unfortunately, despite oozing oodles of optimism, these passwords don’t inspire much confidence in that the netizens using them cultivate some of the most fundamental cyber-hygiene habits. Also new among the top 25 are ‘666666’, ‘charlie’, and ‘donald’, among others.

SplashData estimates that no fewer than 10 percent of people “have used at least one of the 25 worst passwords on this year’s list”. In addition, almost 3 percent of people are estimated to have used the most common poor password, ‘123456’.

A cursory look at SplashData’s extended list of the 100 most common passwords shows that almost all of them are short numerical strings or keyboard patterns, first names or words that appear in any English dictionary, and sports or pop culture references. This year’s edition of the ranking is based on more than five million passwords leaked by computer users mostly in North America and Western Europe.

It goes without saying that if your password made it among those most common password choices, you would be very well advised to change it. 

No matter how stubborn, however, a password is still only a single barrier between your account and a hacker. This is why it’s worth enabling an extra layer of security by adding an extra authentication factor, particularly for accounts that contain Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or other important data.

So, here’s the list – are any of your passwords in here ?

1	123456
2	password
3	123456789
4	12345678
5	12345
6	111111
7	1234567
8	sunshine
9	qwerty
10	iloveyou
11	princess
12	admin
13	welcome
14	666666
15	abc123
16	football
17	123123
18	monkey
19	654321
20	!@#$%^&*
21	charlie
22	aa123456
23	donald
24	password1
25	qwerty123
26	zxcvbnm
27	121212
28	bailey
29	freedom
30	shadow
31	passw0rd
32	baseball
33	buster
34	daniel
35	hannah
36	thomas
37	summer
38	george
39	harley
40	222222
41	jessica
42	ginger
43	letmein
44	abcdef
45	solo
46	jordan
47	55555
48	tigger
49	joshua
50	pepper
51	sophie
52	1234
53	robert
54	matthew
55	12341234
56	andrew
57	lakers
58	andrea
59	1qaz2wsx
60	starwars
61	ferrari
62	cheese
63	computer
64	corvette
65	mercedes
66	blahblah
67	maverick
68	hello
69	nicole
70	hunter
71	1989
72	amanda
73	1990
74	jennifer
75	banana
76	chelsea
77	ranger
78	1991
79	trustno1
80	merlin
81	cookie
82	ashley
83	bandit
84	killer
85	aaaaaa
86	1q2w3e
87	zaq1zaq1
88	test
89	hockey
90	dallas
91	whatever
92	admin123
93	pussy
94	liverpool
95	querty
96	william
97	soccer
98	london
99	1992
100	biteme