Trends · United States · 2025
Baby names in 2025: what changed
Which names rose, fell or came back in 2025 in the United States, and how much of the country still shares the same few names. Every figure is computed from the Social Security Administration’s name files.
The numbers
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- Olivia was the most-given girls’ name in 2025 for the 7th year in a row, with 13,544 births (SSA, 2025).
- Liam was the most-given boys’ name in 2025 for the 9th year in a row, with 20,818 births (SSA, 2025).
- Ailany was the fastest-rising girls’ name in 2025: it went from #101 to #14, from 2,606 to 7,136 births (SSA, 2025).
- Eithan was the fastest-rising boys’ name in 2025: it went from #226 to #97, from 1,599 to 3,636 births (SSA, 2025).
- The 10 most-given girls’ names covered 7.0% of girls born in 2025, against 23.0% in 1925 (SSA, 2025).
- 11 names entered the top 100 in 2025, 5 for girls and 6 for boys (SSA, 2025).
- Hazel was given to 90 girls in 1983 and to 6,318 in 2025 (SSA, 2025).
- The SSA counted 3,315,343 births with a published name in 2025, 0.8% fewer than in 2024 and 10.4% fewer than in 2015 (SSA, 2025).
The top 10
Fastest risers in a year
Rank in 2024 against rank in 2025, among names given at least 1,000 times in both years. Bars show places gained.
Girls
Ailany went from #101 to #14.
Boys
Eithan went from #226 to #97.
Fastest risers in ten years
Rank in 2015 against rank in 2025, among names given at least 2,000 times in 2025. Bars show places gained.
Girls
Ailany went from #3,842 to #14.
Boys
Eithan went from #1,603 to #97.
New entries
Names that entered the top 100 in 2025, and the top 1,000: they were not there in 2024.
Girls
5 girls’ names entered the top 100 in 2025 and 5 left it. 95 of the 100 most-given girls’ names of 2024 stayed in.
44 girls’ names entered the top 1,000. The highest:
Boys
6 boys’ names entered the top 100 in 2025 and 6 left it. 94 of the 100 most-given boys’ names of 2024 stayed in.
49 boys’ names entered the top 1,000. The highest:
Names that fell most
Rank in 2024 against rank in 2025, among names given at least 1,000 times in both years. Bars show places lost.
Girls
Blake went from #210 to #295.
Boys
Phoenix went from #275 to #329.
Names that came back
Names given a lot before 1960, nearly gone for decades, and back: at least 30 years between their peak and their low, and at least ten times the births in 2025 that they had at the low.
Girls
Peak 1943: 5,482. Low 1984: 790. 2025: 13,400.
Peak 1918: 5,324. Low 1976: 414. 2025: 12,754.
Peak 1917: 1,160. Low 1968: 390. 2025: 12,699.
Peak 1921: 14,278. Low 1976: 819. 2025: 9,123.
Peak 1920: 8,497. Low 1977: 228. 2025: 7,649.
Peak 1920: 3,694. Low 1972: 109. 2025: 7,546.
Peak 1920: 1,477. Low 1986: 485. 2025: 6,380.
Peak 1918: 7,615. Low 1983: 90. 2025: 6,318.
How concentrated names are
Share of births that went to the 100 most-given names, for girls and boys, from 1880 to 2025.
| Year | Top 10 girls | Top 100 girls | Top 10 boys | Top 100 boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 23.0% | 64.9% | 32.9% | 72.8% |
| 1975 | 17.4% | 53.7% | 25.7% | 69.3% |
| 2000 | 10.2% | 42.0% | 13.4% | 55.4% |
| 2015 | 8.4% | 34.0% | 8.3% | 43.7% |
| 2025 | 7.0% | 31.5% | 8.0% | 38.0% |
In 2025 the 10 most-given girls’ names cover 7.0% of girls born and the 10 most-given boys’ names 8.0% of boys born (SSA, 2025). In 1925 it was 23.0% and 32.9%.
Where the figures come from
- Source: Baby names data of the Social Security Administration (births in the US, 1880 to 2025). Names given fewer than five times in a year are not published, so totals are slightly below all births.
- A rank is the one in that year’s file, by sex, one spelling at a time: Sophia and Sofia are two lines. Rises and falls compare two ranks; names given fewer than 1,000 times are left out, because a few births then move the rank a lot.
- Top 10 and top 100 shares are measured against the births in the file, by sex.
- No figure is estimated: everything is recomputed when the page is built.
- The data: SSA, popular baby names. How Vowel’s pages are made.
And how has yours moved?
See your own name’s life, year by year.