146 years of US baby names · 1880–2025
What 2025 named its babies
3.32M babies were given a recorded name in 2025, down 0.83% from 2024. That is 21% below the all-time peak of 4.20M in 1957.
Babies named in 2025
3,315,343
−0.83% vs 2024
Distinct names
31,227
−793 vs 2024
Boys per 100 girls
106.3
1,708,076 boys · 1,607,267 girls
Top-1000 coverage
81% / 74%
Boys / girls covered by the 1,000 most common names
Story of the year
Ailany made the year's biggest climb
Ailany climbed from #101 to #14 among girls — 2,606 births in 2024 to 7,136 in 2025, a 174% jump that lifted it 7.2× up the rankings.
The establishment
The most popular names of 2025
Liam has been the most popular boys' name for 9 straight years (since 2017), and Olivia has led the girls for 7 (since 2019).
Boys
Top 10 · movement vs 2024
- 1Liamunchanged places
20,818 births
- 2Noahunchanged places
20,358 births
- 3Oliverunchanged places
14,939 births
- 4Theodoreunchanged places
13,355 births
- 5Henryup 1 places
12,020 births
- 6Jamesdown 1 places
11,945 births
- 7Elijahup 1 places
11,111 births
- 8Mateodown 1 places
11,045 births
- 9Williamup 1 places
10,545 births
- 10Lucasdown 1 places
10,219 births
Girls
Top 10 · movement vs 2024
- 1Oliviaunchanged places
13,544 births
- 2Charlotteup 2 places
13,400 births
- 3Emmadown 1 places
12,754 births
- 4Ameliadown 1 places
12,699 births
- 5Sophiaup 1 places
12,561 births
- 6Miadown 1 places
11,078 births
- 7Isabellaunchanged places
10,666 births
- 8Evelynunchanged places
9,123 births
- 9Sofiaup 1 places
8,252 births
- 10Elianaup 8 places
8,191 births
Momentum
Who rose and who fell
Ranked by year-over-year change in births, among names with at least 300 births in 2025 — enough volume that the percentages mean something.
Showing names. Boys and girls are ranked separately — a name only competes with its own side.
Fastest rising
Biggest gains, 2024 → 2025
- Akariup 433% percent
Boys · 104 → 554 · #1631 → #542
- Madissonup 372% percent
Girls · 203 → 958 · #1182 → #319
- Kasaiup 360% percent
Boys · 95 → 437 · #1747 → #639
- Jasaiup 331% percent
Boys · 167 → 719 · #1214 → #439
- Klarityup 295% percent
Girls · 87 → 344 · #2187 → #791
- Rynleeup 259% percent
Girls · 100 → 359 · #1977 → #755
- Eziahup 247% percent
Boys · 134 → 465 · #1399 → #610
- Ailanyup 174% percent
Girls · 2,606 → 7,136 · #101 → #14
Fastest falling
Biggest losses, 2024 → 2025
- Dayanadown 37% percent
Girls · 619 → 392 · #497 → #716
- Kyliandown 34% percent
Boys · 681 → 448 · #460 → #624
- Angeladown 32% percent
Girls · 1,123 → 765 · #281 → #408
- Cruedown 30% percent
Boys · 446 → 314 · #629 → #797
- Blakedown 29% percent
Girls · 1,461 → 1,035 · #210 → #295
- Destinydown 29% percent
Girls · 643 → 458 · #481 → #635
- Journidown 28% percent
Girls · 481 → 345 · #621 → #786
- Jayladown 28% percent
Girls · 788 → 569 · #404 → #530
Arrivals
New to the top 100 in 2025
Names that broke into the hundred most popular for the first time since 2024.
Boys
First year inside the top 100
Girls
First year inside the top 100
The long run
Births, 1880–2025
375,362,447 births are recorded across 146 years. 106.3 boys were named for every 100 girls — a gap that has barely moved in a century. 31,227 distinct names were recorded in 2025 — 793 fewer than in 2024.
Recorded births per year
Peak was 1957. Boys consistently outnumber girls.
Unique names over time
The number of distinct names recorded each year has climbed steeply since the 1960s.
Fragmentation
The top 1,000 covers less every decade
In 1880, the 1,000 most common names covered 99.7% of boys and 100.0% of girls — almost every child. By 2025 that had fallen to 81.2% and 73.6%. Parents now choose from a far wider pool, and girls' names lead the way.
Share of births held by the top 1,000 names
A falling line means naming is spreading out across more names. The axis is trimmed to the range the data actually occupies, so it does not start at zero.
Browse names
Search any name for its archetype, era and trajectory — or browse what's trending, the all-time greatest, and every name by decade or letter
Rivalry
Put two names head to head
Recommend
Find names similar to one you like, by letter pattern, popularity, and era
Decade showdown
Which names surged and which cratered between two decades
Birth year
What the year you were born named its babies
Diversity
How concentrated or diverse naming has become over time
Unisex
Names used for both boys and girls — how balanced are they?
Every figure on this page is regenerated from the raw Social Security Administration files by npm run generate-data, so the report rewrites itself when a new year lands. SSA excludes names with fewer than 5 occurrences, so the true tail is longer than the data shows.