Liam — #1 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Liam

The Social Security Administration has registered 337,540 babies named Liam between 1947 and 2024, spanning 78 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Liam currently holds the #1 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 22,164 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Liam performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 173,981 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Liam shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 37,529 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Liam in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Liam in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 337,540 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.