NordPass is a password storage service. It analyzes anonymized user data each year and ranks the most popular code words they use. The amount of data controlled by experts reached 3 terabytes this time.

first place

Here are the 10 most popular passwords in the world in 2022:

• password
• 123456
• 123456789
• guest
• qwerty
• 12345678
• 111111
• 12345
• col123456
• 123123

Statistics show that 9 of the 10 most popular passwords can be guessed in less than a second. Only hacking “col123456” will take 11 seconds.

In the USA, the password “guest” is most often used, in Germany and France – “123456”. In Great Britain “password” comes first. For some reason there is no data for Ukraine this year.although the company has shown this data in the past.

• It is interesting that the passwords “Password” and “123456” are used equally often by both men and women – these code combinations are leaders in both categories.
• Third place is different: for men, “col123456” is here, and for women, this password never entered the top ten – “guest” took third place.
• Men often have numbers in the top ten, and women can find the password “bigbasket” in the seventh.

And in order not to get into such ratings, we recommend our article on how to create a strong password that will be difficult or even impossible to crack.