Top Baby Names in Montana, 2020s - Most Popular Boys & Girls Names

The most popular baby names in Montana from 2020 to 2025, ranked by total births during the decade.

What the Data Says About the 2020s in Montana

During the 2020s (2020–2025), the Social Security Administration recorded 15,085 births across the top 50 boy and top 50 girl names in Montana. The decade's leading boy name was Oliver with 350 births, while Charlotte was the top girl name with 274 births. The top 50 boys in this decade collectively accounted for 8,589 births versus 6,496 for the top 50 girls, the more common SSA pattern in which the boy-name pool is more concentrated among fewer high-frequency choices. These totals represent only names appearing five or more times per year in Montana; rarer names fall below the SSA's privacy-disclosure threshold and are excluded.

The 2020s sits within a specific cultural window of U.S. naming history. Recent decades like the 2020s reflect a distinctive modern pattern, shorter names, vowel-heavy endings, and revived classic forms (Liam, Noah, Olivia, Emma) replacing the trendy -aiden/-ayden constructions of the prior era. Oliver and Charlotte leading Montana during this window reflects how regional preferences interact with broader national trends.

Decade totals are computed by summing SSA state-year records for Montana across all ten years of the 2020s. Because the SSA suppresses any name with fewer than five annual occurrences in a state, the true number of unique names given in Montana during this decade is larger than what this page lists. The dataset also treats every spelling as a separate name, for example, Kayla and Kaylah are tracked independently, so combined-spelling totals would shift the rankings somewhat. This page is provided for informational and research purposes and does not constitute naming, legal, or genealogical advice.

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Boy Top 50 Boy Names

Rank Name Births
1 Oliver 350
2 Henry 282
3 William 276
4 James 274
5 Theodore 270
6 Liam 241
7 Hudson 239
8 Noah 230
9 Wyatt 218
10 Owen 216
11 Maverick 204
12 Jack 202
13 Asher 200
14 Jackson 187
15 Waylon 181
16 Cooper 178
17 Benjamin 177
18 Brooks 170
19 John 165
20 Ezra 164
21 Beau 161
22 Mason 158
23 Elijah 158
24 Samuel 158
25 Weston 157
26 Miles 153
27 Levi 153
28 Lincoln 149
29 Carter 147
30 Luke 147
31 Everett 146
32 Walker 144
33 Bennett 143
34 Wesley 141
35 Thomas 141
36 Lucas 139
37 Sawyer 137
38 Michael 136
39 Daniel 136
40 Leo 133
41 Grayson 132
42 Charles 130
43 Colter 129
44 Silas 127
45 Logan 122
46 Easton 121
47 Joseph 121
48 Stetson 117
49 Rowan 117
50 Alexander 112

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

Rank Name Births
1 Charlotte 274
2 Olivia 251
3 Evelyn 211
4 Amelia 208
5 Harper 206
6 Emma 200
7 Nora 194
8 Hazel 193
9 Eleanor 183
10 Ava 173
11 Sophia 162
12 Isla 153
13 Willow 151
14 Elizabeth 148
15 Paisley 145
16 Aurora 139
17 Violet 138
18 Lucy 132
19 Lainey 130
20 Ellie 129
21 Lily 129
22 Hadley 126
23 Ruby 122
24 Avery 120
25 Juniper 118
26 Madison 116
27 Emery 111
28 Scarlett 109
29 Grace 109
30 Ember 106
31 Isabella 103
32 Piper 101
33 Quinn 100
34 Josephine 99
35 Ella 99
36 Nova 94
37 Luna 94
38 Lillian 93
39 Penelope 90
40 Ivy 90
41 Finley 88
42 Abigail 88
43 Zoey 87
44 Addison 86
45 Aspen 85
46 Mia 84
47 Maeve 83
48 Kinsley 82
49 Riley 82
50 Aria 82

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

Source: SSA Baby Names Methodology, names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year are included (ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html).

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

Data sourced from the U.S. Social Security Administration. See our methodology for details.