What is the most popular baby name in Arizona?

The most popular boy name in Arizona is Michael with 47,307 births since 1910. The most popular girl name is Mary with 23,048 births. These rankings are based on cumulative SSA birth registration data.

How have baby names changed in Arizona over the decades?

Arizona is TREND-LED today: latest-year leaders already differ from the all-time book on both sexes. Decade #1s moved from John/Mary (1910s) to Liam/Olivia (2020s).

How many babies are named in Arizona?

Our data covers 1,325,405 name registrations in Arizona for the top 50 boys and top 50 girls names (SPARSE volume stamp · #28 of 51 jurisdictions). The SSA records all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year, from 1910 through 2025.

State name profile

Most Popular Baby Names in Arizona

The boys' and girls' names most often given in Arizona, ranked by total recorded births in Social Security Administration state data, 1910–2025.

Compiled byNameAlmanac, Independent data publisher

Michael
#1 boy name: Mary
#1 girl name: 1,325,405
Births recorded: 1910–2025
Years covered

Arizona's all-time #1 names are Michael for boys and Mary for girls, based on 1,325,405 SSA birth registrations since 1910.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Arizona has recorded 1,325,405 births across its top 50 boy and top 50 girl names since 1910. Michael leads all boys with 47,307 births, while Mary tops the girls with 23,048. This profile covers decade-by-decade leaders and the full top-50 rankings for both sexes.

Michael #1 boy name
Mary #1 girl name
1,325,405 births recorded

Where Arizona sits by recorded name volume

Arizona: 4,092,941 SSA name registrations (SPARSE · rank 28/51). Inventory signal only, orthogonal to the top-50 lists below.

Arizona vs all states by SSA name registrations

Where this state's disclosed SSA name-state registration total sits among every tracked jurisdiction

4,092,941 28th of 51 higher than 23 of 51 states

Jurisdictions, banded by SSA name-registration count

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Source Social Security Administration state baby-name files · 2026-08-11

Arizona naming snapshot

According to SSA state files through 2025, Mary is #1 of 23,048 cumulative SSA births in Arizona ≠ Olivia #1 of 1,216 2025 girl names at all-time rank #14; Michael is #1 of 47,307 cumulative SSA births in Arizona ≠ Liam #1 of 1,033 2025 boy names at all-time rank #51.

Olivia
2025 girls #1, all-time #14: Mary
all-time girls #1, 2025 #51: Liam
2025 boys #1, all-time #51: Michael
all-time boys #1, 2025 #26

Both sexes in Arizona already split latest-year vs all-time leaders, cumulative totals since 1910 and 2025 use different denominators.

Data updated Aug 2026

Both sexes trend-led

Where Arizona's latest-year leaders split from the all-time book

Arizona stamps SPARSE on disclosed SSA name-state volume (4,092,941 · #28/51). Cumulative top-50 leaders are Michael (47,307 boy births) and Mary (23,048 girl births) across 1,325,405 top-50 registrations since 1910. Both sexes are TREND-LED: the latest 2025 #1 differs from the all-time cumulative #1 on each side. Boy top-50 share 846,580 vs 478,825 for girls.

In Arizona, the latest SSA year #1 differs from the all-time cumulative #1 for both boys and girls, a dual trend split against the long book.

Decade shifts, SSA coverage, and comparability

Decade-by-decade data for Arizona extends back to 1910. In the 1910s, the #1 boy name was John and the #1 girl name was Mary. By the 2020s, the top names had shifted to Liam for boys and Olivia for girls.

SSA state files include any name appearing five or more times in a given state-year; lower-frequency names are suppressed for privacy. Figures are comparable across all 50 states and DC. Alternate spellings (Sophia vs Sofia) are separate names; middle names are not tracked. This page is for informational and research purposes.

Olivia

353
Sophia

315
Mia

300
Amelia

289
Isabella

288
Emma

286
Charlotte

249
Eliana

242
Camila

225
Sofia

215

What this shows Olivia leads 2025 girls in Arizona; Mary remains the all-time cumulative #1 at rank #14 in 2025.

Liam

437
Noah

434
Mateo

419
Santiago

361
Oliver

295
Elias

294
Sebastian

277
Theodore

268
Elijah

266
Ezra

250

What this shows Liam leads 2025 boys in Arizona; Michael remains the all-time cumulative #1 at rank #51 in 2025.

Mary

23,048
Jennifer

18,527
Jessica

16,820
Elizabeth

16,002
Maria

15,101
Ashley

14,074
Emily

13,126
Sarah

12,888
Stephanie

11,739
Michelle

11,593

What this shows Mary leads Arizona girls with 23,048 recorded births.

Michael

47,307
David

39,619
Robert

35,197
James

32,066
John

32,020
Daniel

30,783
Christopher

28,288
William

24,932
Joseph

23,140
Matthew

22,367

What this shows Michael leads Arizona boys with 47,307 recorded births.

Decade-by-Decade Leaders

The #1 boy and girl name in Arizona for each decade

How we calculated this

For each decade, we sum every year's SSA state-level birth count per name, then take the single name with the highest ten-year total for each sex. A name can lead a decade with a strong single peak year or with steady, moderate demand across all ten years, the total treats both the same way.

Decade	Top Boy	Births	Top Girl	Births
1910s	John	918	Mary	1,605
1920s	John	1,655	Mary	2,842
1930s	Robert	1,879	Mary	3,066
1940s	Robert	3,370	Mary	3,866
1950s	Robert	5,371	Mary	4,580
1960s	David	6,364	Lisa	3,391
1970s	Michael	7,737	Jennifer	5,911
1980s	Michael	9,831	Jessica	6,739
1990s	Michael	7,449	Jessica	5,399
2000s	Jacob	5,992	Emily	4,175
2010s	Noah	3,992	Sophia	4,785
2020s	Liam	2,762	Olivia	2,311

Boy Top 50 Boy Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Michael	47,307
2	David	39,619
3	Robert	35,197
4	James	32,066
5	John	32,020
6	Daniel	30,783
7	Christopher	28,288
8	William	24,932
9	Joseph	23,140
10	Matthew	22,367
11	Jose	22,202
12	Anthony	21,584
13	Richard	21,066
14	Joshua	20,298
15	Jacob	19,133
16	Andrew	18,343
17	Jesus	15,999
18	Thomas	15,861
19	Ryan	15,634
20	Alexander	13,804
21	Steven	13,749
22	Charles	13,662
23	Jason	13,541
24	Jonathan	13,457
25	Brandon	13,407
26	Nicholas	13,262
27	Benjamin	12,827
28	Kevin	12,642
29	Brian	12,544
30	Angel	12,504
31	Gabriel	12,492
32	Luis	12,442
33	Mark	12,430
34	Juan	11,870
35	Carlos	11,697
36	Justin	11,642
37	Aaron	11,183
38	Tyler	11,051
39	Samuel	11,005
40	Eric	10,955
41	Manuel	10,924
42	Paul	10,831
43	Noah	10,489
44	Nathan	10,145
45	Frank	9,583
46	Timothy	9,502
47	Zachary	9,327
48	Ethan	9,266
49	Christian	9,263
50	Adrian	9,245

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Mary	23,048
2	Jennifer	18,527
3	Jessica	16,820
4	Elizabeth	16,002
5	Maria	15,101
6	Ashley	14,074
7	Emily	13,126
8	Sarah	12,888
9	Stephanie	11,739
10	Michelle	11,593
11	Emma	11,343
12	Samantha	11,271
13	Melissa	10,463
14	Olivia	10,344
15	Sophia	10,211
16	Amanda	10,199
17	Patricia	10,185
18	Victoria	10,159
19	Isabella	10,069
20	Kimberly	9,599
21	Nicole	9,306
22	Rebecca	9,244
23	Mia	9,027
24	Lisa	8,943
25	Linda	8,916
26	Andrea	8,885
27	Rachel	7,982
28	Christina	7,887
29	Alexis	7,663
30	Barbara	7,470
31	Laura	7,285
32	Madison	7,212
33	Abigail	7,210
34	Angela	7,192
35	Cynthia	7,171
36	Alyssa	7,137
37	Vanessa	7,093
38	Anna	7,054
39	Amy	7,007
40	Hannah	6,877
41	Karen	6,857
42	Sandra	6,783
43	Heather	6,761
44	Natalie	6,715
45	Evelyn	6,547
46	Amber	6,526
47	Susan	6,374
48	Margaret	6,353
49	Megan	6,317
50	Danielle	6,270

Read with Arizona

Nearest ABS(SSA name-registration volume) peers for Arizona (SPARSE · TREND-LED).

SPARSE TREND-LED

Colorado · SPARSE

4,011,208 SSA registrations (near-scale with Arizona; ABS Δ 81,733). Leader lane may differ from Arizona's TREND-LED.

Mississippi · SPARSE

4,242,975 SSA registrations (near-scale with Arizona; ABS Δ 150,034). Leader lane may differ from Arizona's TREND-LED.

Iowa · SPARSE

4,430,195 SSA registrations (near-scale with Arizona; ABS Δ 337,254). Leader lane may differ from Arizona's TREND-LED.

Connecticut · SPARSE

3,668,373 SSA registrations (near-scale with Arizona; ABS Δ 424,568). Leader lane may differ from Arizona's TREND-LED.

Oklahoma (volume-lane contrast)

Near Arizona on SSA registration volume yet stamps DENSE vs SPARSE.

Why names rise and fall

Arizona stamps SPARSE · TREND-LED - read the matching SSA methodology before quoting state leaders.

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files, 1910–2025 (ssa.gov).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

According to the Social Security Administration, as of June 2026 this profile draws directly on the agency's state-level public-use files, which document 6,696,687 state-level records across all 51 reporting jurisdictions spanning 1910-2025.