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Top 1,275 History Keywords
Monthly search volume, CPC, competition and a 12-month trend for 1,275 history keywords, updated October 2026.
History keywords are events, periods, people and documentaries, with strong school-year seasonality. It is a content niche through and through: reference sites, museums and education publishers rank, and advertising is sparse.
The list holds 1,275 keywords with a combined 287,356,600 searches a month. The most searched are the odyssey (7,480,000), compass (4,090,000), castles (3,350,000), libraries (3,350,000), radio (3,350,000), vikings (3,350,000), spacex (2,740,000), chernobyl (2,240,000), chernobyl disaster (2,240,000) and earth day (2,240,000).
Advertisers pay most for income inequality ($94.42 a click), economic inequality ($20.00 a click), indigenous rights ($15.50 a click), library of alexandria ($10.00 a click) and social movements ($7.75 a click). 11% of the keywords in the list cost $1 or more a click, which marks the commercial end of the niche.
Demand is steady through the year: across the list, the busiest and quietest months are within 1.3x of each other. The trend column shows each keyword's own twelve months.
Volumes are global monthly averages from Google; CPC is the top-of-page bid in US dollars; competition runs from 0 (few advertisers) to 1 (many). Last refreshed October 2026. For any other keyword, the free search volume checker gives the same numbers, and the Keywords Everywhere extension shows them inside Google as you search.
Showing 300 of 1,275
| No | Keyword | Search volume | CPC | Competition | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the odyssey | 7,480,000 | $0.02 | 0.02 | |
| 2 | compass | 4,090,000 | $0.04 | 0.12 | |
| 3 | castles | 3,350,000 | $0.03 | 0.01 | |
| 4 | libraries | 3,350,000 | $0.12 | 0.01 | |
| 5 | radio | 3,350,000 | $0.02 | 0.24 | |
| 6 | vikings | 3,350,000 | $1.18 | 0.08 | |
| 7 | spacex | 2,740,000 | $0.13 | 0.02 | |
| 8 | chernobyl | 2,240,000 | $0.02 | 0.01 | |
| 9 | chernobyl disaster | 2,240,000 | $0.02 | 0.01 | |
| 10 | earth day | 2,240,000 | $1.53 | 0.02 | |
| 11 | eiffel tower | 2,240,000 | $0.52 | 0.46 | |
| 12 | internet | 2,240,000 | $0.96 | 0.29 | |
| 13 | nato | 2,240,000 | $0.16 | 0.01 | |
| 14 | stephen hawking | 2,240,000 | $0.01 | 0.01 | |
| 15 | stock market | 2,240,000 | $0.27 | 0.11 | |
| 16 | taj mahal | 2,240,000 | $0.15 | 0.32 | |
| 17 | united nations | 2,240,000 | $0.21 | 0.01 | |
| 18 | adolf hitler | 1,830,000 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 19 | albert einstein | 1,830,000 | $1.23 | 0.01 | |
| 20 | don quixote | 1,830,000 | $0.09 | 0.06 | |
| 21 | jfk | 1,830,000 | $0.06 | 0.00 | |
| 22 | mona lisa | 1,830,000 | $0.06 | 0.30 | |
| 23 | abraham lincoln | 1,500,000 | $0.03 | 0.00 | |
| 24 | bible | 1,500,000 | $0.07 | 0.45 | |
| 25 | bill gates | 1,500,000 | $0.18 | 0.01 | |
| 26 | che guevara | 1,500,000 | $0.01 | 0.02 | |
| 27 | colosseum | 1,500,000 | $0.66 | 0.63 | |
| 28 | gladiators | 1,500,000 | $0.14 | 0.01 | |
| 29 | greta thunberg | 1,500,000 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 30 | legends | 1,500,000 | $0.06 | 0.02 | |
| 31 | leonardo da vinci | 1,500,000 | $0.07 | 0.01 | |
| 32 | machu picchu | 1,500,000 | $0.30 | 0.09 | |
| 33 | medicine | 1,500,000 | $0.12 | 0.55 | |
| 34 | reformation | 1,500,000 | $0.08 | 1.00 | |
| 35 | steve jobs | 1,500,000 | $0.01 | 0.00 | |
| 36 | archives | 1,220,000 | $0.01 | 0.02 | |
| 37 | cleopatra | 1,220,000 | $0.03 | 0.03 | |
| 38 | electricity | 1,220,000 | $2.27 | 0.06 | |
| 39 | ethnicity | 1,220,000 | $0.00 | 0.14 | |
| 40 | george washington | 1,220,000 | $0.06 | 0.00 | |
| 41 | isaac newton | 1,220,000 | $0.03 | 0.00 | |
| 42 | marco polo | 1,220,000 | $0.35 | 0.99 | |
| 43 | marie curie | 1,220,000 | $0.00 | 0.01 | |
| 44 | nikola tesla | 1,220,000 | $0.00 | 0.01 | |
| 45 | osama bin laden | 1,220,000 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 46 | pilgrims | 1,220,000 | $0.10 | 0.94 | |
| 47 | quran | 1,220,000 | $0.01 | 0.14 | |
| 48 | renaissance | 1,220,000 | $0.19 | 0.01 | |
| 49 | saddam hussein | 1,220,000 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 50 | statue of liberty | 1,220,000 | $0.69 | 0.64 | |
| 51 | telegraph | 1,220,000 | $0.09 | 0.01 | |
| 52 | catholic church | 1,000,000 | $1.87 | 0.02 | |
| 53 | fascism | 1,000,000 | $0.28 | 0.01 | |
| 54 | gandhi | 1,000,000 | $0.02 | 0.11 | |
| 55 | genghis khan | 1,000,000 | $0.03 | 0.02 | |
| 56 | hannibal | 1,000,000 | $0.23 | 0.01 | |
| 57 | islam | 1,000,000 | $0.03 | 0.01 | |
| 58 | nelson mandela | 1,000,000 | $0.31 | 0.01 | |
| 59 | paper | 1,000,000 | $0.25 | 0.12 | |
| 60 | pearl harbor | 1,000,000 | $0.36 | 0.14 | |
| 61 | realism | 1,000,000 | $0.07 | 0.10 | |
| 62 | rosa parks | 1,000,000 | $0.01 | 0.01 | |
| 63 | shakespeare | 1,000,000 | $0.06 | 0.01 | |
| 64 | smartphones | 1,000,000 | $0.07 | 1.00 | |
| 65 | stalin | 1,000,000 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 66 | stonehenge | 1,000,000 | $0.16 | 0.96 | |
| 67 | vasco da gama | 1,000,000 | $0.13 | 0.01 | |
| 68 | 1984 | 823,000 | $0.05 | 0.25 | |
| 69 | andy warhol | 823,000 | $0.03 | 0.06 | |
| 70 | auschwitz | 823,000 | $0.39 | 0.04 | |
| 71 | babylon | 823,000 | $0.05 | 0.02 | |
| 72 | babylonians | 823,000 | $0.05 | 0.02 | |
| 73 | covid19 | 823,000 | $0.35 | 0.02 | |
| 74 | democracy | 823,000 | $0.30 | 0.01 | |
| 75 | fidel castro | 823,000 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 76 | hiroshima | 823,000 | $0.05 | 0.01 | |
| 77 | hiroshima and nagasaki | 823,000 | $0.05 | 0.01 | |
| 78 | ice age | 823,000 | $0.78 | 0.08 | |
| 79 | ice ages | 823,000 | $0.78 | 0.08 | |
| 80 | immigration | 823,000 | $0.31 | 0.06 | |
| 81 | jazz | 823,000 | $0.02 | 0.02 | |
| 82 | karl marx | 823,000 | $0.02 | 0.00 | |
| 83 | mahatma gandhi | 823,000 | $0.03 | 0.00 | |
| 84 | malcolm x | 823,000 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 85 | monarchy | 823,000 | $0.12 | 0.08 | |
| 86 | petra | 823,000 | $0.17 | 0.05 | |
| 87 | philosophy | 823,000 | $1.25 | 0.25 | |
| 88 | queen victoria | 823,000 | $0.03 | 0.02 | |
| 89 | shogun | 823,000 | $0.35 | 0.02 | |
| 90 | shogunate | 823,000 | $0.35 | 0.02 | |
| 91 | socrates | 823,000 | $0.06 | 0.01 | |
| 92 | sparta | 823,000 | $0.06 | 0.09 | |
| 93 | sputnik | 823,000 | $0.04 | 0.01 | |
| 94 | telephone | 823,000 | $0.14 | 0.64 | |
| 95 | video games | 823,000 | $0.01 | 0.43 | |
| 96 | william shakespeare | 823,000 | $0.05 | 0.01 | |
| 97 | winston churchill | 823,000 | $0.05 | 0.01 | |
| 98 | acropolis | 673,000 | $0.54 | 0.57 | |
| 99 | alexander the great | 673,000 | $0.02 | 0.01 | |
| 100 | athens | 673,000 | $0.26 | 0.05 | |
| 101 | automobile | 673,000 | $0.04 | 0.66 | |
| 102 | automobiles | 673,000 | $0.04 | 0.66 | |
| 103 | civil war | 673,000 | $0.47 | 0.00 | |
| 104 | goths | 673,000 | $0.33 | 0.05 | |
| 105 | greek alphabet | 673,000 | $0.02 | 0.29 | |
| 106 | indira gandhi | 673,000 | $0.01 | 0.00 | |
| 107 | julius caesar | 673,000 | $0.02 | 0.01 | |
| 108 | mao zedong | 673,000 | $0.01 | 0.00 | |
| 109 | marie antoinette | 673,000 | $0.02 | 0.01 | |
| 110 | mesopotamia | 673,000 | $0.03 | 0.01 | |
| 111 | michelangelo | 673,000 | $0.06 | 0.01 | |
| 112 | mount rushmore | 673,000 | $0.08 | 0.58 | |
| 113 | neil armstrong | 673,000 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 114 | nietzsche | 673,000 | $0.01 | 0.03 | |
| 115 | penicillin | 673,000 | $1.42 | 0.01 | |
| 116 | plato | 673,000 | $0.13 | 0.14 | |
| 117 | pyramids | 673,000 | $0.24 | 0.03 | |
| 118 | revolutions | 673,000 | $0.07 | 0.31 | |
| 119 | samurai | 673,000 | $0.01 | 0.06 | |
| 120 | stoicism | 673,000 | $0.10 | 0.03 | |
| 121 | sydney opera house | 673,000 | $0.19 | 0.45 | |
| 122 | vietnam war | 673,000 | $0.28 | 0.00 | |
| 123 | woodstock | 673,000 | $0.07 | 0.03 | |
| 124 | amelia earhart | 550,000 | $0.01 | 0.01 | |
| 125 | angkor wat | 550,000 | $0.07 | 0.06 | |
| 126 | ayatollah khomeini | 550,000 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 127 | benjamin franklin | 550,000 | $0.04 | 0.01 | |
| 128 | buddhism | 550,000 | $0.07 | 0.02 | |
| 129 | chichen itza | 550,000 | $0.25 | 0.91 | |
| 130 | communism | 550,000 | $0.02 | 0.01 | |
| 131 | dday | 550,000 | $0.02 | 0.01 | |
| 132 | declaration of independence | 550,000 | $0.04 | 0.12 | |
| 133 | hagia sophia | 550,000 | $0.26 | 0.72 | |
| 134 | knights | 550,000 | $0.03 | 0.01 | |
| 135 | lenin | 550,000 | $0.01 | 0.00 | |
| 136 | migration | 550,000 | $0.16 | 0.01 | |
| 137 | nazism | 550,000 | $0.15 | 0.00 | |
| 138 | neanderthals | 550,000 | $0.05 | 0.01 | |
| 139 | nero | 550,000 | $0.03 | 0.10 | |
| 140 | physiology | 550,000 | $1.07 | 0.00 | |
| 141 | propaganda | 550,000 | $0.12 | 0.03 | |
| 142 | sigmund freud | 550,000 | $0.03 | 0.01 | |
| 143 | sphinx | 550,000 | $0.06 | 0.04 | |
| 144 | swords | 550,000 | $0.11 | 0.06 | |
| 145 | thomas jefferson | 550,000 | $0.03 | 0.00 | |
| 146 | alan turing | 450,000 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 147 | amendments | 450,000 | $0.02 | 0.01 | |
| 148 | apartheid | 450,000 | $0.33 | 0.00 | |
| 149 | apollo 11 | 450,000 | $0.02 | 0.00 | |
| 150 | archaeology | 450,000 | $0.22 | 0.02 | |
| 151 | astronomy | 450,000 | $0.78 | 0.02 | |
| 152 | ayurveda | 450,000 | $0.19 | 0.47 | |
| 153 | benito mussolini | 450,000 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 154 | bill of rights | 450,000 | $0.02 | 0.06 | |
| 155 | cathedrals | 450,000 | $0.23 | 0.02 | |
| 156 | charles darwin | 450,000 | $0.03 | 0.00 | |
| 157 | christopher columbus | 450,000 | $0.03 | 0.00 | |
| 158 | constitution | 450,000 | $0.78 | 0.01 | |
| 159 | dalai lama | 450,000 | $0.01 | 0.01 | |
| 160 | diaspora | 450,000 | $1.08 | 0.00 | |
| 161 | emiliano zapata | 450,000 | $0.00 | 0.01 | |
| 162 | folklore | 450,000 | $0.05 | 0.01 | |
| 163 | franks | 450,000 | $0.10 | 0.02 | |
| 164 | g20 | 450,000 | $0.01 | 0.02 | |
| 165 | galileo galilei | 450,000 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 166 | great wall of china | 450,000 | $0.04 | 0.06 | |
| 167 | guernica | 450,000 | $0.01 | 0.11 | |
| 168 | habeas corpus | 450,000 | $0.02 | 0.01 | |
| 169 | henry viii | 450,000 | $0.01 | 0.00 | |
| 170 | holocaust | 450,000 | $1.14 | 0.00 | |
| 171 | jeanjacques rousseau | 450,000 | $0.03 | 0.01 | |
| 172 | joseph stalin | 450,000 | $0.01 | 0.00 | |
| 173 | martin luther | 450,000 | $0.02 | 0.01 | |
| 174 | mercosur | 450,000 | $0.03 | 0.01 | |
| 175 | midway | 450,000 | $0.06 | 0.03 | |
| 176 | mother teresa | 450,000 | $0.02 | 0.00 | |
| 177 | navigation | 450,000 | $0.04 | 0.05 | |
| 178 | pop art | 450,000 | $0.30 | 0.14 | |
| 179 | red cross | 450,000 | $0.58 | 0.13 | |
| 180 | rousseau | 450,000 | $0.03 | 0.01 | |
| 181 | shamanism | 450,000 | $0.38 | 0.00 | |
| 182 | sharia law | 450,000 | $0.05 | 0.01 | |
| 183 | socialism | 450,000 | $0.02 | 0.02 | |
| 184 | taliban | 450,000 | $0.02 | 0.00 | |
| 185 | television | 450,000 | $0.04 | 0.78 | |
| 186 | theodore roosevelt | 450,000 | $0.03 | 0.01 | |
| 187 | thomas edison | 450,000 | $0.03 | 0.00 | |
| 188 | vaccination | 450,000 | $0.62 | 0.07 | |
| 189 | vaccines | 450,000 | $0.62 | 0.07 | |
| 190 | voltaire | 450,000 | $0.01 | 0.02 | |
| 191 | adam smith | 368,000 | $0.01 | 0.01 | |
| 192 | aristotle | 368,000 | $0.03 | 0.01 | |
| 193 | art deco | 368,000 | $0.31 | 0.10 | |
| 194 | art nouveau | 368,000 | $0.21 | 0.03 | |
| 195 | atheism | 368,000 | $0.21 | 0.00 | |
| 196 | baroque | 368,000 | $0.01 | 0.15 | |
| 197 | bhagavad gita | 368,000 | $0.02 | 0.45 | |
| 198 | braille | 368,000 | $0.45 | 0.12 | |
| 199 | bushido | 368,000 | $0.19 | 0.05 | |
| 200 | capitalism | 368,000 | $0.22 | 0.01 | |
| 201 | charles de gaulle | 368,000 | $0.04 | 0.00 | |
| 202 | dictatorship | 368,000 | $0.44 | 0.01 | |
| 203 | dynasties | 368,000 | $0.03 | 0.02 | |
| 204 | explorers | 368,000 | $0.29 | 0.17 | |
| 205 | frederick douglass | 368,000 | $0.02 | 0.05 | |
| 206 | gold rush | 368,000 | $0.50 | 0.07 | |
| 207 | henry ford | 368,000 | $0.10 | 0.01 | |
| 208 | ho chi minh | 368,000 | $0.17 | 0.02 | |
| 209 | immanuel kant | 368,000 | $0.01 | 0.02 | |
| 210 | joan of arc | 368,000 | $0.01 | 0.01 | |
| 211 | john locke | 368,000 | $0.02 | 0.00 | |
| 212 | machiavelli | 368,000 | $0.02 | 0.06 | |
| 213 | magna carta | 368,000 | $0.08 | 0.01 | |
| 214 | mansa musa | 368,000 | $0.01 | 0.00 | |
| 215 | marcus aurelius | 368,000 | $0.02 | 0.07 | |
| 216 | martin luther king jr | 368,000 | $0.17 | 0.01 | |
| 217 | napoleon bonaparte | 368,000 | $0.02 | 0.01 | |
| 218 | nonaligned movement | 368,000 | $0.07 | 0.05 | |
| 219 | ottoman empire | 368,000 | $0.08 | 0.00 | |
| 220 | panama canal | 368,000 | $0.21 | 0.03 | |
| 221 | pharaohs | 368,000 | $1.04 | 0.01 | |
| 222 | ramses ii | 368,000 | $0.16 | 0.01 | |
| 223 | raphael | 368,000 | $0.04 | 0.01 | |
| 224 | republic | 368,000 | $0.11 | 0.03 | |
| 225 | richard nixon | 368,000 | $0.02 | 0.00 | |
| 226 | rosetta stone | 368,000 | $0.46 | 0.17 | |
| 227 | scientists | 368,000 | $0.19 | 0.00 | |
| 228 | shroud of turin | 368,000 | $0.03 | 0.12 | |
| 229 | simon bolivar | 368,000 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 230 | smallpox | 368,000 | $0.28 | 0.00 | |
| 231 | soviet union | 368,000 | $0.02 | 0.00 | |
| 232 | teotihuacan | 368,000 | $0.62 | 0.19 | |
| 233 | 19th amendment | 301,000 | $0.49 | 0.01 | |
| 234 | alqaeda | 301,000 | $0.03 | 0.00 | |
| 235 | aztecs | 301,000 | $0.01 | 0.07 | |
| 236 | baghdad | 301,000 | $0.29 | 0.00 | |
| 237 | beowulf | 301,000 | $0.03 | 0.06 | |
| 238 | boston tea party | 301,000 | $0.41 | 0.04 | |
| 239 | cold war | 301,000 | $0.12 | 0.01 | |
| 240 | confucius | 301,000 | $0.01 | 0.00 | |
| 241 | constantinople | 301,000 | $0.19 | 0.00 | |
| 242 | easter island | 301,000 | $0.42 | 0.03 | |
| 243 | emancipation | 301,000 | $0.16 | 0.00 | |
| 244 | eugenics | 301,000 | $0.29 | 0.00 | |
| 245 | existentialism | 301,000 | $0.06 | 0.00 | |
| 246 | feminism | 301,000 | $0.37 | 0.00 | |
| 247 | franklin d roosevelt | 301,000 | $0.02 | 0.01 | |
| 248 | french revolution | 301,000 | $0.03 | 0.01 | |
| 249 | global warming | 301,000 | $0.55 | 0.03 | |
| 250 | great barrier reef | 301,000 | $0.41 | 0.72 | |
| 251 | great wall | 301,000 | $0.05 | 0.06 | |
| 252 | greenpeace | 301,000 | $0.69 | 0.09 | |
| 253 | hinduism | 301,000 | $0.02 | 0.00 | |
| 254 | human development index | 301,000 | $0.09 | 0.08 | |
| 255 | imf | 301,000 | $0.19 | 0.01 | |
| 256 | imperialism | 301,000 | $0.03 | 0.00 | |
| 257 | international space station | 301,000 | $0.09 | 0.01 | |
| 258 | james cook | 301,000 | $0.05 | 0.01 | |
| 259 | kant | 301,000 | $0.00 | 0.02 | |
| 260 | light bulb | 301,000 | $0.19 | 0.88 | |
| 261 | machine guns | 301,000 | $0.74 | 0.00 | |
| 262 | monroe doctrine | 301,000 | $0.02 | 0.01 | |
| 263 | opec | 301,000 | $0.39 | 0.01 | |
| 264 | pancho villa | 301,000 | $0.02 | 0.01 | |
| 265 | prohibition | 301,000 | $0.07 | 0.02 | |
| 266 | ramayana | 301,000 | $0.02 | 0.02 | |
| 267 | roman empire | 301,000 | $0.05 | 0.00 | |
| 268 | runes | 301,000 | $0.04 | 0.25 | |
| 269 | sanskrit | 301,000 | $0.25 | 0.00 | |
| 270 | segregation | 301,000 | $0.26 | 0.00 | |
| 271 | silk road | 301,000 | $0.02 | 0.02 | |
| 272 | simone de beauvoir | 301,000 | $0.00 | 0.03 | |
| 273 | suez canal | 301,000 | $0.01 | 0.00 | |
| 274 | the last supper | 301,000 | $0.37 | 0.64 | |
| 275 | zoroastrianism | 301,000 | $0.02 | 0.00 | |
| 276 | alexander graham bell | 246,000 | $0.02 | 0.00 | |
| 277 | american constitution | 246,000 | $0.07 | 0.08 | |
| 278 | amnesty international | 246,000 | $1.48 | 0.08 | |
| 279 | berlin wall | 246,000 | $0.18 | 0.04 | |
| 280 | brexit | 246,000 | $0.02 | 0.01 | |
| 281 | carthage | 246,000 | $0.02 | 0.03 | |
| 282 | catherine the great | 246,000 | $0.01 | 0.03 | |
| 283 | charlemagne | 246,000 | $0.02 | 0.01 | |
| 284 | chivalry | 246,000 | $0.38 | 0.01 | |
| 285 | christianity | 246,000 | $0.76 | 0.01 | |
| 286 | colonialism | 246,000 | $0.08 | 0.02 | |
| 287 | conspiracy theories | 246,000 | $0.02 | 0.06 | |
| 288 | crusades | 246,000 | $0.02 | 0.00 | |
| 289 | dante alighieri | 246,000 | $0.04 | 0.03 | |
| 290 | daoism | 246,000 | $0.03 | 0.00 | |
| 291 | descartes | 246,000 | $0.01 | 0.01 | |
| 292 | donatello | 246,000 | $0.02 | 0.03 | |
| 293 | ebola outbreak | 246,000 | $0.53 | 0.03 | |
| 294 | embassies | 246,000 | $0.31 | 0.01 | |
| 295 | federalism | 246,000 | $1.26 | 0.00 | |
| 296 | genocide | 246,000 | $0.42 | 0.00 | |
| 297 | gilded age | 246,000 | $0.02 | 0.01 | |
| 298 | greek mythology | 246,000 | $0.19 | 0.04 | |
| 299 | hegemony | 246,000 | $0.07 | 0.01 | |
| 300 | hernan cortes | 246,000 | $0.00 | 0.00 |