What is the most popular baby name in Georgia?

On a heavy SSA book, Georgia's cumulative #1 boy is James (187,301 births) and #1 girl is Mary (125,808 births) since 1910.

How have baby names changed in Georgia over the decades?

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

How many babies are named in Georgia?

Our data covers 3,287,260 name registrations in Georgia for the top 50 boys and top 50 girls names (HEAVY volume stamp · #10 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 Georgia

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

Compiled byNameAlmanac, Independent data publisher

James
#1 boy name: Mary
#1 girl name: 3,287,260
Births recorded: 1910–2025
Years covered

Georgia's all-time #1 names are James for boys and Mary for girls, based on 3,287,260 SSA birth registrations since 1910.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Georgia has recorded 3,287,260 births across its top 50 boy and top 50 girl names since 1910. James leads all boys with 187,301 births, while Mary tops the girls with 125,808. This profile covers decade-by-decade leaders and the full top-50 rankings for both sexes.

James #1 boy name
Mary #1 girl name
3,287,260 births recorded

Where Georgia sits by recorded name volume

Georgia: 9,368,996 SSA name registrations (HEAVY · rank 10/51). Inventory signal only, orthogonal to the top-50 lists below.

Georgia vs all states by SSA name registrations

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

9,368,996 10th of 51 higher than 41 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

Georgia naming snapshot

According to SSA state files through 2025, Mary is #1 of 125,808 cumulative SSA births in Georgia ≠ Amelia #1 of 1,789 2025 girl names at all-time rank #51; James is #1 of 187,301 cumulative SSA births in Georgia ≠ Liam #1 of 1,554 2025 boy names at all-time rank #51.

Amelia
2025 girls #1, all-time #51: Mary
all-time girls #1, 2025 #51: Liam
2025 boys #1, all-time #51: James
all-time boys #1, 2025 #5

Both sexes in Georgia 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

What a heavy registry book shows for Georgia

Georgia sits in the heaviest third of SSA name-state registration totals (9,368,996 · HEAVY · #10/51). Cumulative top-50 leaders are James (187,301 boy births) and Mary (125,808 girl births) across 3,287,260 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 2,037,399 vs 1,249,861 for girls.

In Georgia, 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.

Coverage notes on a heavy state file

Decade-by-decade data for Georgia extends back to 1910. In the 1910s, the #1 boy name was James and the #1 girl name was Mary. By the 2020s, the top names had shifted to Noah 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.

Amelia

450
Charlotte

438
Olivia

418
Emma

397
Isabella

342
Sophia

310
Ava

301
Mia

296
Evelyn

296
Elizabeth

291

What this shows Amelia leads 2025 girls in Georgia; Mary remains the all-time cumulative #1 at rank #51 in 2025.

Liam

661
Noah

653
William

475
Elijah

473
James

451
Oliver

432
Henry

385
John

369
Theodore

315
Asher

306

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

Mary

125,808
Elizabeth

43,477
Betty

40,802
Annie

35,946
Sarah

35,786
Linda

35,649
Patricia

34,134
Jennifer

34,046
Barbara

33,317
Dorothy

32,072

What this shows Mary leads Georgia girls with 125,808 recorded births.

James

187,301
William

138,034
John

125,942
Robert

110,568
Michael

91,691
Charles

79,249
David

78,425
Christopher

64,038
Willie

60,684
Thomas

56,326

What this shows James leads Georgia boys with 187,301 recorded births.

Decade-by-Decade Leaders

The #1 boy and girl name in Georgia 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	James	16,138	Mary	15,843
1920s	James	24,261	Mary	24,184
1930s	James	22,204	Mary	21,338
1940s	James	27,503	Mary	22,602
1950s	James	25,284	Mary	16,808
1960s	James	19,930	Lisa	10,800
1970s	Michael	16,870	Jennifer	12,261
1980s	Christopher	17,078	Jessica	13,409
1990s	Christopher	12,661	Ashley	9,601
2000s	William	10,539	Madison	7,450
2010s	William	7,242	Ava	5,852
2020s	Noah	3,887	Olivia	2,976

Boy Top 50 Boy Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	James	187,301
2	William	138,034
3	John	125,942
4	Robert	110,568
5	Michael	91,691
6	Charles	79,249
7	David	78,425
8	Christopher	64,038
9	Willie	60,684
10	Thomas	56,326
11	Joseph	53,990
12	Richard	42,541
13	Joshua	40,767
14	George	40,004
15	Matthew	37,327
16	Daniel	34,860
17	Anthony	32,591
18	Andrew	32,159
19	Kenneth	30,731
20	Henry	30,692
21	Larry	29,056
22	Timothy	28,651
23	Jonathan	27,040
24	Samuel	26,982
25	Brandon	26,668
26	Jacob	25,625
27	Jason	25,191
28	Benjamin	24,911
29	Donald	23,924
30	Justin	23,744
31	Edward	23,724
32	Jerry	22,813
33	Bobby	22,481
34	Johnny	22,348
35	Kevin	21,981
36	Walter	21,658
37	Steven	21,203
38	Mark	20,876
39	Paul	20,516
40	Brian	20,499
41	Ronald	20,457
42	Jack	20,300
43	Charlie	19,516
44	Jimmy	19,499
45	Stephen	18,920
46	Gregory	18,889
47	Eric	18,494
48	Nicholas	18,300
49	Billy	18,029
50	Alexander	17,184

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Mary	125,808
2	Elizabeth	43,477
3	Betty	40,802
4	Annie	35,946
5	Sarah	35,786
6	Linda	35,649
7	Patricia	34,134
8	Jennifer	34,046
9	Barbara	33,317
10	Dorothy	32,072
11	Jessica	28,307
12	Ashley	28,289
13	Martha	26,827
14	Margaret	26,418
15	Emily	25,234
16	Kimberly	24,767
17	Brenda	24,605
18	Emma	24,534
19	Angela	23,130
20	Amanda	22,754
21	Sandra	22,375
22	Shirley	20,648
23	Carolyn	20,460
24	Ruby	20,402
25	Lisa	20,065
26	Frances	19,734
27	Evelyn	19,660
28	Rebecca	19,615
29	Deborah	19,118
30	Cynthia	19,044
31	Laura	18,842
32	Stephanie	18,725
33	Susan	18,610
34	Anna	18,373
35	Helen	17,853
36	Donna	17,843
37	Melissa	17,687
38	Willie	17,661
39	Nancy	17,594
40	Katherine	17,225
41	Virginia	17,105
42	Sara	17,023
43	Pamela	16,610
44	Madison	16,445
45	Olivia	16,429
46	Hannah	16,105
47	Catherine	15,893
48	Mildred	15,754
49	Amy	15,680
50	Karen	15,381

Read with Georgia

Nearest ABS peers for a heavy-registry state (Georgia · HEAVY · TREND-LED).

HEAVY TREND-LED

New Jersey · HEAVY

9,242,220 SSA registrations (near-scale with Georgia; ABS Δ 126,776). Leader lane may differ from Georgia's TREND-LED.

North Carolina · HEAVY

9,597,543 SSA registrations (near-scale with Georgia; ABS Δ 228,547). Leader lane may differ from Georgia's TREND-LED.

Massachusetts · HEAVY

8,213,855 SSA registrations (near-scale with Georgia; ABS Δ 1,155,141). Leader lane may differ from Georgia's TREND-LED.

Indiana · DENSE

7,926,947 SSA registrations (near-scale with Georgia; ABS Δ 1,442,049). Leader lane may differ from Georgia's TREND-LED.

Why names rise and fall

Georgia stamps HEAVY · 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 - heavy-registry states: how cumulative leaders and latest-year splits are computed.

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.