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“Name” by Goo Goo Dolls

From the album A Boy Named Goo (1994)

“Name” by Goo Goo Dolls appears on 42 radio countdowns from 27 stations between 1995 and 2025. It was first released in 1994 on the album A Boy Named Goo. Its best result is #2 on The Buzz Top 103 Alternative Songs of '95. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #5 alternative song of 1995, #650 alternative song of all time and #110 of the '90s.

42countdowns
27stations
#2best position
0#1 finishes
4top 10 finishes
1995–2025years charted

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"Name" is the song that turned the Goo Goo Dolls into a radio band, the third single from A Boy Named Goo, their fifth album. John Rzeznik wrote it alone, words and music, and Lou Giordano produced, engineered and mixed it.

It's a slow, wistful ballad that keeps its voice down, letting Rzeznik's raspy vocal carry the weight while the band holds back until the chorus swells. Sensitive without going soggy, it had the kind of ache that alternative and rock radio could both get behind.

And they did: it was the band's first major hit, going to number one on both Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks and Album Rock Tracks charts and reaching number 5 on the Hot 100. Canada went for it too, sending it to 2 on the RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart and to the top of the RPM Alternative 30.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

Hard Rock & Metal

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1995 19 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1995 107
1995 24 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1995 91
1995 7 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1995 101
1995 12 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1995 100
1995 10 Radio 104.1 Hartford-New Haven, CT WMRQ Top 104 Songs of 1995 104
1995 2 103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL The Buzz Top 103 Alternative Songs of '95 103
1995 23 WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 1995 50
1995 2 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 95 Songs of 1995 95
1995 11 WDRE Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA WDRE Top 103.9 Songs of 1995 104

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1995 950 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) 1000
1996 945 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) 1000
1999 213 KROQ KROQ Top 300 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 1999) 300
1999 87 WHFS WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) 500
1999 58 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 208 WLIR / WDRE WLIR Top 300 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 300
1999 117 WFNX WFNX Top 500 Songs of All-Time (June 1999) 500
1999 116 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 388 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
1999 205 CFNY 102.1 The Edge CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) 1002
2000 40 Y100 Y100 Top 300 Songs of the '90s (September 2000) 100
2000 84 DC101 DC101 Top 101 Rock Songs of the 90s 101
2000 389 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2000 18 103.3 The Edge 103.3 The Edge Top 103 New Rock Songs of the Millennium 103
2001 392 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2001 110 WBRU WBRU Modern Rock Top 500 (2001) 500
2002 392 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 70 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 392 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 392 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 394 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2005 904 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2019 53 X96 X96's Top 100 Songs of the 90's 100
2020 375 DC101 The DC101 Top 500 500
2020 269 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2020) 420
2020 1513 WXPN WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time 2020
2021 282 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2021) 420
2022 73 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s 900
2022 454 X96 X96 Top 500 Alternative Songs of All Time 500
2022 282 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2022) 420
2023 296 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2023) 420
2024 622 WYEP WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years 1049
2025 248 WFPK WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s 500

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