Baby Names US
1880 – 2025 · 24,363 names

Every American name,
every year since 1880

Type any name to see its complete history: the rises, the peaks, the comebacks, drawn from 375,362,447 Social Security records.

The top names of 2025

Girls
  1. Olivia 13,544
  2. Charlotte 13,400
  3. Emma 12,754
  4. Amelia 12,699
  5. Sophia 12,561
  6. Mia 11,078
  7. Isabella 10,666
  8. Evelyn 9,123
  9. Sofia 8,252
  10. Eliana 8,191
Boys
  1. Liam 20,818
  2. Noah 20,358
  3. Oliver 14,939
  4. Theodore 13,355
  5. Henry 12,020
  6. James 11,945
  7. Elijah 11,111
  8. Mateo 11,045
  9. William 10,545
  10. Lucas 10,219

Full 2025 top 100 → All years since 1880

Rising fastest this year

The biggest one-year rank jumps in 2025, girls and boys combined.

Ailani +159 #168 Arleth +159 #269 Benson +157 #279 Elowyn +148 #299 Callahan +137 #227 Eithan +129 #97 Sutton +110 #332 Adhara +102 #370 All movers →

Explore the data

Six ways into the same 24,363-name dataset. Every page links back to the full history of each name.

24,363 names
Every name, A to Z
Sortable tables per letter with births, rank, peak year, and median age; filter by girls or boys.
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146 years
Rankings by year
The top 500 girls' and boys' names for every year back to 1880.
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updated yearly
Trending in 2025
The fastest risers and fallers, five-year trends, and every name new to the top 100.
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50 states + DC
Top names by state
What each state names its babies, every year back to 1910, with full top-100 lists.
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top 1,000
The all-time greats
Every name ranked by total births since 1880. The long game, not the fads.
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up to 4 at once
Compare names
Overlay popularity curves on one chart, with detail stats and shareable links.
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Stories in the data

The Linda earthquake
In 1947 a hit song made Linda explode past Mary: the fastest rise of the 20th century, and the beginning of the end for a name that had been #1 for six decades.
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The vintage revival
Emma was fading by the 1960s. Then great-grandmother chic came back: today's top girls' names all peaked once before, a full century ago.
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The J-wave of the 70s and 80s
Jennifer held #1 for fifteen straight years, a run so dominant it defined a generation, then vanished as fast as it arrived.
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The fall of Michael
#1 for almost half a century, Michael has slid out of the top 10 as Liam and Noah, barely used before the 1980s, took over.
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How to read the charts

Raw birth counts mislead across generations: far more babies were born in 1957 than in 1935. The popularity view shows births per 1,000 babies, which makes 1890 and 2025 honestly comparable, and the rank view shows where a name stood among all names in any given year. Every name page carries its full year-by-year record, and the compare tool overlays up to four names on one chart.

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Beyond the United States

The same treatment exists for France: every French first name since 1900, with departmental maps and INSEE data, at prenomsdefrance.fr. Name pages on both sites link to each other when a name exists in both countries.