Top Google Searches (May 2026)

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Top Google Searches (May 2026)


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As of May 2026, the most searched thing on Google is “chatgpt.” The next most popular searched words are “youtube”, “amazon”, “gmail”, “wordle”, and “facebook.”

Below are lists of the top 100 most popular searches and questions in the US and worldwide, pulled from our database of 28.7 billion keywords:

Top 100 Google searches in the U.S.

# Keyword Search Volume
1 chatgpt 94,610,000
2 youtube 87,790,000
3 amazon 84,320,000
4 gmail 57,960,000
5 wordle 45,080,000
6 facebook 42,830,000
7 google 40,900,000
8 translate 30,700,000
9 google translate 29,410,000
10 chat gpt 29,360,000
11 weather 25,900,000
12 walmart 25,350,000
13 nfl 23,730,000
14 canva 23,460,000
15 calculator 21,000,000
16 blooket 19,110,000
17 google docs 18,720,000
18 fox news 18,360,000
19 news 17,460,000
20 home depot 17,440,000
21 target 17,200,000
22 yahoo 16,690,000
23 weather tomorrow 16,620,000
24 instagram 16,610,000
25 roblox 16,170,000
26 ebay 15,910,000
27 google maps 15,430,000
28 amazon prime 15,330,000
29 yahoo mail 13,600,000
30 traductor 13,300,000
31 google flights 12,760,000
32 spotify 12,070,000
33 nfl games 11,720,000
34 nfl scores 11,660,000
35 snake 11,580,000
36 kahoot 11,300,000
37 netflix 10,860,000
38 zillow 10,750,000
39 nba 10,430,000
40 clever 10,390,000
41 google classroom 10,340,000
42 cool math games 10,240,000
43 food near me 10,110,000
44 tiktok 10,040,000
45 linkedin 9,480,000
46 costco 9,440,000
47 connections 9,270,000
48 etsy 9,150,000
49 trump 8,960,000
50 election results 8,900,000
51 bitcoin price 8,890,000
52 solitaire 8,870,000
53 english to spanish 8,860,000
54 reddit 8,860,000
55 shein 8,850,000
56 usps tracking 8,730,000
57 indeed 8,650,000
58 discord 8,510,000
59 speed test 8,510,000
60 streameast 8,450,000
61 gemini 8,140,000
62 dow jones 8,020,000
63 spanish to english 7,990,000
64 maps 7,830,000
65 espn 7,670,000
66 prodigy 7,600,000
67 lowes 7,580,000
68 twitter 7,260,000
69 outlook 7,250,000
70 capital one 7,200,000
71 pinterest 7,090,000
72 google drive 6,940,000
73 best buy 6,900,000
74 airbnb 6,750,000
75 lululemon 6,550,000
76 restaurants near me 6,150,000
77 gimkit 6,070,000
78 math solver 5,940,000
79 cnn 5,900,000
80 fedex tracking 5,780,000
81 dodgers 5,710,000
82 snake game 5,710,000
83 cvs 5,620,000
84 google slides 5,430,000
85 dow jones today 5,420,000
86 mlb 5,340,000
87 facebook marketplace 5,330,000
88 doordash 5,290,000
89 mlb scores 5,260,000
90 walgreens 5,220,000
91 gmail login 5,160,000
92 nfl schedule 5,090,000
93 nba scores 5,000,000
94 macys 4,940,000
95 internet speed test 4,930,000
96 paypal 4,870,000
97 old navy 4,830,000
98 apple 4,810,000
99 epic 4,770,000
100 ufc 4,710,000

We removed all NSFW queries from this list. What you see above are the top 100 “clean” search queries. You can see the full list with NSFW keywords in Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer

Top 100 Google searches globally

# Keyword Search Volume
1 chatgpt 841,937,000
2 whatsapp web 497,761,000
3 youtube 390,861,000
4 chat gpt 294,536,000
5 translate 241,438,000
6 amazon 205,391,000
7 canva 187,177,000
8 facebook 178,580,000
9 gmail 177,682,000
10 weather 164,689,000
11 instagram 156,586,000
12 google 150,217,000
13 clima 138,490,000
14 traductor 108,499,000
15 roblox 104,584,000
16 whatsapp 102,694,000
17 weather tomorrow 101,558,000
18 google translate 97,181,000
19 tiktok 84,853,000
20 wordle 79,189,000
21 gemini 75,119,000
22 pinterest 71,900,000
23 मौसम 71,527,000
24 india national cricket team vs england cricket team match scorecard 58,578,000
25 google maps 58,334,000
26 ind vs eng 57,682,000
27 netflix 56,029,000
28 погода 52,485,000
29 speed test 51,850,000
30 maps 51,058,000
31 poki 48,801,000
32 yahoo 47,751,000
33 proxy 47,162,000
34 outlook 46,563,000
35 ipl 45,562,000
36 england cricket team vs india national cricket team match scorecard 45,535,000
37 linkedin 44,469,000
38 real madrid 43,733,000
39 yahoo mail 42,211,000
40 spotify 41,597,000
41 wa web 41,362,000
42 tradutor 39,740,000
43 sarkari result 39,459,000
44 hotmail 39,068,000
45 discord 38,994,000
46 casibom 38,934,000
47 clima para amanhã 38,799,000
48 twitter 38,595,000
49 gpt 38,433,000
50 news 38,091,000
51 flamengo 37,999,000
52 hava durumu 37,113,000
53 कल का मौसम 37,077,000
54 nfl 35,630,000
55 shein 35,427,000
56 classificações de brasileirão série a 34,324,000
57 calculator 34,314,000
58 ind vs aus 34,069,000
59 premier league 33,343,000
60 nba 33,107,000
61 переводчик 32,836,000
62 fb 32,593,000
63 bbc news 31,747,000
64 ind vs sa 31,593,000
65 cuaca 31,247,000
66 ebay 29,813,000
67 india national cricket team vs new zealand national cricket team match scorecard 29,697,000
68 walmart 29,494,000
69 gg dịch 29,358,000
70 ikea 28,639,000
71 kahoot 27,475,000
72 serie a 27,467,000
73 temu 27,120,000
74 south africa national cricket team vs india national cricket team match scorecard 27,015,000
75 tiempo 26,817,000
76 google docs 26,765,000
77 yt 26,403,000
78 çeviri 25,714,000
79 ig 25,344,000
80 amazon prime 25,133,000
81 india national cricket team vs australian men’s cricket team match scorecard 25,046,000
82 flipkart 24,977,000
83 ipl 2025 24,845,000
84 blooket 24,828,000
85 e devlet 24,610,000
86 speedtest 24,554,000
87 mundial de clubes 24,261,000
88 天気 24,183,000
89 x 24,049,000
90 google flights 23,861,000
91 погода завтра 23,578,000
92 airbnb 23,284,000
93 gemini ai 23,073,000
94 pogoda 22,895,000
95 yandex 22,874,000
96 google scholar 22,781,000
97 indeed 22,287,000
98 skyscanner 22,023,000
99 india vs england 22,006,000
100 météo 21,612,000

Top 100+ Google searches in 200+ countries

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Go to Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer, leave the search field blank, then hit search. You’ll see every keyword in our database for your chosen country sorted by monthly search volume in descending order.

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  • The keyword’s search intent (informational, navigational, commercial, or branded)
  • Keyword Difficulty (KD)
  • Its search volume growth over the past 3 months
  • Its mobile/desktop search distribution 
  • Global search volume
  • Traffic Potential (TP)
  • Global TP
  • Cost-per-click (CPC)
  • Parent Topic

To see the current top-ranking pages for any query, hit the SERP button.

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Top 100+ Google searches in your niche

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For example, if you search for “Netflix” and go to the Matching terms report, you will find >2 million keyword ideas sorted by monthly search volume.

Matching terms report

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