How popular is your name?
In 2025 the Social Security Administration counted 3,315,343 babies under 31,219 names given to 5 or more babies of one sex; Olivia and Liam were the most given. Look up any of the 105,948 names recorded since 1880 to see its rank, an estimate of how many Americans with it are alive and how old they are.
Babies given each name per year, girls and boys together.
Births and ranks: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
The most given names of 2025
Top 10: each sex’s ranking in the 2025 file, with the change from 2024.
Names on the move
The biggest climbs in rank from 2024 to 2025 among the 2025 top 1,000, the measure SSA uses.
Climbs: rank in 2025 against rank in 2024, per sex.
Ways in
- Girls’ names of 2025The top 1,000 with births, rank changes and a 30-year trend line each.
- Boys’ names of 2025The top 1,000 with births, rank changes and a 30-year trend line each.
- Years, 1880 to 2025Each year’s top 100, the names that entered and left, the biggest climbs.
- GenerationsThe most given and the most over-represented names of Boomers, Millennials and Gen Z, and how many are alive.
- StatesEach state’s top names and the names it gives more often than its national share predicts.
- How old are people with your name?The ages of the living Americans who carry a name.
Research
- The most common names of living AmericansAn estimate: who is alive today, by name.
- How naming spread outThe top 10 names’ share of births, 1880-2025.
- Names that changed sidesNames whose majority changed from one sex to the other, and when.