What is the most popular baby name in Maryland?

The most popular boy name in Maryland is John with 88,317 births since 1910. The most popular girl name is Mary with 64,185 births. These rankings are based on cumulative SSA birth registration data.

How have baby names changed in Maryland over the decades?

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

How many babies are named in Maryland?

Our data covers 2,138,589 name registrations in Maryland for the top 50 boys and top 50 girls names (DENSE volume stamp · #23 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 Maryland

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

Compiled byNameAlmanac, Independent data publisher

John
#1 boy name: Mary
#1 girl name: 2,138,589
Births recorded: 1910–2025
Years covered

Maryland's all-time #1 names are John for boys and Mary for girls, based on 2,138,589 SSA birth registrations since 1910.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Maryland has recorded 2,138,589 births across its top 50 boy and top 50 girl names since 1910. John leads all boys with 88,317 births, while Mary tops the girls with 64,185. This profile covers decade-by-decade leaders and the full top-50 rankings for both sexes.

John #1 boy name
Mary #1 girl name
2,138,589 births recorded

Where Maryland sits by recorded name volume

Maryland: 5,046,092 SSA name registrations (DENSE · rank 23/51). Inventory signal only, orthogonal to the top-50 lists below.

Maryland vs all states by SSA name registrations

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

5,046,092 23rd of 51 higher than 28 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

Maryland naming snapshot

According to SSA state files through 2025, Mary is #1 of 64,185 cumulative SSA births in Maryland ≠ Ailany #1 of 1,002 2025 girl names at all-time rank #51; John is #1 of 88,317 cumulative SSA births in Maryland ≠ Liam #1 of 922 2025 boy names at all-time rank #51.

Ailany
2025 girls #1, all-time #51: Mary
all-time girls #1, 2025 #51: Liam
2025 boys #1, all-time #51: John
all-time boys #1, 2025 #26

Both sexes in Maryland 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 Maryland's latest-year leaders split from the all-time book

Maryland stamps DENSE on disclosed SSA name-state volume (5,046,092 · #23/51). Cumulative top-50 leaders are John (88,317 boy births) and Mary (64,185 girl births) across 2,138,589 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 1,372,996 vs 765,593 for girls.

In Maryland, 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 Maryland extends back to 1910. In the 1910s, the #1 boy name was William 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.

Ailany

225
Charlotte

222
Olivia

218
Mia

217
Sophia

210
Eliana

206
Emma

196
Isabella

175
Amelia

159
Zoe

158

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

Liam

463
Noah

377
Lucas

221
Theodore

214
Oliver

210
William

185
Ethan

183
Henry

183
James

180
Thiago

168

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

Mary

64,185
Elizabeth

27,423
Patricia

26,683
Jennifer

24,135
Margaret

24,111
Barbara

22,633
Linda

21,449
Sarah

18,454
Dorothy

17,913
Karen

17,135

What this shows Mary leads Maryland girls with 64,185 recorded births.

John

88,317
James

84,633
William

82,241
Michael

78,386
Robert

76,389
David

58,781
Charles

54,683
Joseph

50,145
Thomas

40,369
Richard

38,880

What this shows John leads Maryland boys with 88,317 recorded births.

Decade-by-Decade Leaders

The #1 boy and girl name in Maryland 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	William	6,168	Mary	7,815
1920s	William	9,957	Mary	11,882
1930s	William	8,050	Mary	9,130
1940s	John	12,198	Mary	10,699
1950s	Michael	14,489	Mary	10,752
1960s	Michael	15,581	Lisa	8,751
1970s	Michael	11,794	Jennifer	9,313
1980s	Michael	12,466	Jessica	7,613
1990s	Michael	9,425	Ashley	5,136
2000s	Michael	4,967	Madison	3,760
2010s	Noah	3,306	Olivia	3,044
2020s	Liam	2,609	Olivia	1,478

Boy Top 50 Boy Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	John	88,317
2	James	84,633
3	William	82,241
4	Michael	78,386
5	Robert	76,389
6	David	58,781
7	Charles	54,683
8	Joseph	50,145
9	Thomas	40,369
10	Richard	38,880
11	Christopher	36,511
12	Daniel	30,417
13	Matthew	29,116
14	George	28,133
15	Kevin	24,033
16	Anthony	23,325
17	Edward	23,211
18	Andrew	23,019
19	Brian	22,683
20	Donald	22,065
21	Mark	22,020
22	Paul	21,976
23	Joshua	21,097
24	Steven	20,498
25	Kenneth	19,948
26	Timothy	19,208
27	Ronald	18,945
28	Ryan	18,390
29	Jason	16,739
30	Jeffrey	16,669
31	Nicholas	16,102
32	Stephen	16,102
33	Eric	16,063
34	Benjamin	14,958
35	Samuel	14,749
36	Jacob	14,724
37	Brandon	13,909
38	Jonathan	13,861
39	Justin	13,797
40	Gregory	13,559
41	Gary	13,431
42	Alexander	13,226
43	Raymond	12,613
44	Patrick	12,074
45	Henry	10,753
46	Frank	10,713
47	Zachary	10,542
48	Scott	10,464
49	Walter	10,321
50	Tyler	10,208

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Mary	64,185
2	Elizabeth	27,423
3	Patricia	26,683
4	Jennifer	24,135
5	Margaret	24,111
6	Barbara	22,633
7	Linda	21,449
8	Sarah	18,454
9	Dorothy	17,913
10	Karen	17,135
11	Deborah	17,030
12	Jessica	16,801
13	Susan	16,793
14	Lisa	16,363
15	Kimberly	16,234
16	Catherine	15,416
17	Emily	15,286
18	Ashley	15,127
19	Anna	14,582
20	Nancy	14,527
21	Helen	14,401
22	Sharon	14,243
23	Donna	13,742
24	Michelle	13,235
25	Betty	13,220
26	Katherine	12,761
27	Ruth	12,640
28	Sandra	12,398
29	Amanda	12,387
30	Laura	12,367
31	Stephanie	12,253
32	Rebecca	12,107
33	Shirley	11,588
34	Melissa	11,284
35	Kathleen	11,028
36	Amy	10,915
37	Angela	10,905
38	Carol	10,887
39	Emma	10,817
40	Nicole	10,491
41	Cynthia	10,473
42	Rachel	10,472
43	Lauren	10,267
44	Samantha	10,061
45	Christina	9,920
46	Kelly	9,859
47	Evelyn	9,835
48	Brenda	9,710
49	Doris	9,663
50	Christine	9,384

Read with Maryland

Nearest ABS(SSA name-registration volume) peers for Maryland (DENSE · TREND-LED).

DENSE TREND-LED

South Carolina · DENSE

4,858,777 SSA registrations (near-scale with Maryland; ABS Δ 187,315). Leader lane may differ from Maryland's TREND-LED.

Washington · DENSE

5,405,415 SSA registrations (near-scale with Maryland; ABS Δ 359,323). Leader lane may differ from Maryland's TREND-LED.

Oklahoma · DENSE

4,551,265 SSA registrations (near-scale with Maryland; ABS Δ 494,827). Leader lane may differ from Maryland's TREND-LED.

Iowa · SPARSE

4,430,195 SSA registrations (near-scale with Maryland; ABS Δ 615,897). Leader lane may differ from Maryland's TREND-LED.

Why names rise and fall

Maryland stamps DENSE · 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.