What is the most popular baby name in Nebraska?

Even on a thin SSA book, Nebraska's cumulative #1 boy is Robert (40,023 births) and #1 girl is Mary (30,212 births) since 1910.

How have baby names changed in Nebraska over the decades?

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

How many babies are named in Nebraska?

Our data covers 990,788 name registrations in Nebraska for the top 50 boys and top 50 girls names (SPARSE volume stamp · #36 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 Nebraska

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

Compiled byNameAlmanac, Independent data publisher

Robert
#1 boy name: Mary
#1 girl name: 990,788
Births recorded: 1910–2025
Years covered

Nebraska's all-time #1 names are Robert for boys and Mary for girls, based on 990,788 SSA birth registrations since 1910.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Nebraska has recorded 990,788 births across its top 50 boy and top 50 girl names since 1910. Robert leads all boys with 40,023 births, while Mary tops the girls with 30,212. This profile covers decade-by-decade leaders and the full top-50 rankings for both sexes.

Robert #1 boy name
Mary #1 girl name
990,788 births recorded

Where Nebraska sits by recorded name volume

Nebraska: 2,456,568 SSA name registrations (SPARSE · rank 36/51). Inventory signal only, orthogonal to the top-50 lists below.

Nebraska vs all states by SSA name registrations

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

2,456,568 36th of 51 higher than 15 of 51 states

Jurisdictions, banded by SSA name-registration count

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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

Nebraska naming snapshot

According to SSA state files through 2025, Mary is #1 of 30,212 cumulative SSA births in Nebraska ≠ Charlotte #1 of 481 2025 girl names at all-time rank #51; Robert is #1 of 40,023 cumulative SSA births in Nebraska ≠ Liam #1 of 513 2025 boy names at all-time rank #51.

Charlotte
2025 girls #1, all-time #51: Mary
all-time girls #1, 2025 #51: Liam
2025 boys #1, all-time #51: Robert
all-time boys #1, 2025 #51

Both sexes in Nebraska 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 thin registry book shows for Nebraska

Nebraska sits in the lightest third of SSA name-state registration totals (2,456,568 · SPARSE · #36/51). Cumulative top-50 leaders are Robert (40,023 boy births) and Mary (30,212 girl births) across 990,788 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 608,908 vs 381,880 for girls.

In Nebraska, 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 thin state file

Decade-by-decade data for Nebraska extends back to 1910. In the 1910s, the #1 boy name was John and the #1 girl name was Helen. By the 2020s, the top names had shifted to Oliver for boys and Charlotte 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.

Charlotte

95
Evelyn

82
Harper

80
Amelia

79
Olivia

75
Eleanor

74
Ailany

58
Mia

58
Ivy

58
Violet

58

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

Liam

149
Theodore

128
Henry

113
Noah

109
Oliver

101
Cooper

82
James

73
William

71
Benjamin

69
Hudson

68

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

Mary

30,212
Patricia

12,896
Linda

12,220
Barbara

11,820
Jennifer

11,211
Betty

11,202
Dorothy

11,112
Elizabeth

10,597
Margaret

9,937
Susan

9,873

What this shows Mary leads Nebraska girls with 30,212 recorded births.

Robert

40,023
John

34,131
James

32,977
Michael

30,665
David

25,446
William

25,037
Richard

23,811
Donald

19,206
Thomas

16,554
Charles

14,838

What this shows Robert leads Nebraska boys with 40,023 recorded births.

Decade-by-Decade Leaders

The #1 boy and girl name in Nebraska 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	3,301	Helen	3,348
1920s	Robert	8,315	Mary	5,338
1930s	Robert	6,648	Mary	5,049
1940s	Robert	6,291	Mary	5,357
1950s	Michael	7,535	Mary	5,828
1960s	Michael	6,696	Lisa	3,433
1970s	Michael	4,762	Jennifer	5,013
1980s	Matthew	4,027	Jessica	3,457
1990s	Jacob	2,998	Emily	1,923
2000s	Jacob	1,999	Emma	1,524
2010s	Liam	1,213	Emma	1,291
2020s	Oliver	741	Charlotte	633

Boy Top 50 Boy Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Robert	40,023
2	John	34,131
3	James	32,977
4	Michael	30,665
5	David	25,446
6	William	25,037
7	Richard	23,811
8	Donald	19,206
9	Thomas	16,554
10	Charles	14,838
11	Daniel	14,520
12	Joseph	13,752
13	Mark	12,632
14	Kenneth	12,326
15	Steven	12,271
16	Matthew	12,209
17	Larry	10,805
18	Christopher	10,798
19	Ronald	10,764
20	Gary	10,322
21	Paul	9,999
22	Timothy	9,692
23	Scott	9,562
24	Andrew	9,469
25	Jeffrey	9,259
26	Brian	9,184
27	Jack	8,388
28	Joshua	8,380
29	Kevin	8,365
30	George	8,226
31	Ryan	8,145
32	Jacob	8,099
33	Jason	8,041
34	Edward	7,636
35	Dennis	7,411
36	Douglas	7,388
37	Harold	7,366
38	Anthony	6,888
39	Raymond	6,583
40	Jerry	6,576
41	Patrick	6,516
42	Nicholas	6,461
43	Dale	6,455
44	Gerald	6,366
45	Benjamin	6,319
46	Roger	6,305
47	Justin	5,947
48	Tyler	5,813
49	Eric	5,763
50	Frank	5,219

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Mary	30,212
2	Patricia	12,896
3	Linda	12,220
4	Barbara	11,820
5	Jennifer	11,211
6	Betty	11,202
7	Dorothy	11,112
8	Elizabeth	10,597
9	Margaret	9,937
10	Susan	9,873
11	Helen	8,669
12	Karen	8,661
13	Donna	8,606
14	Carol	8,171
15	Ruth	8,161
16	Nancy	8,009
17	Sharon	7,618
18	Shirley	7,587
19	Sarah	7,195
20	Sandra	7,129
21	Jessica	7,024
22	Michelle	6,943
23	Lisa	6,928
24	Kathleen	6,697
25	Amy	6,696
26	Julie	6,453
27	Evelyn	6,225
28	Emily	6,211
29	Kimberly	6,149
30	Debra	5,952
31	Janet	5,947
32	Laura	5,648
33	Ashley	5,646
34	Virginia	5,628
35	Amanda	5,532
36	Rebecca	5,524
37	Angela	5,467
38	Cynthia	5,452
39	Marilyn	5,447
40	Lois	5,394
41	Pamela	5,309
42	Doris	5,256
43	Jean	5,213
44	Joan	5,033
45	Kathryn	4,950
46	Melissa	4,919
47	Stephanie	4,867
48	Anna	4,849
49	Diane	4,842
50	Emma	4,793

Read with Nebraska

Nearest ABS peers for a thin-registry state (Nebraska · SPARSE · TREND-LED).

SPARSE TREND-LED

Utah · SPARSE

2,749,892 SSA registrations (near-scale with Nebraska; ABS Δ 293,324). Leader lane may differ from Nebraska's TREND-LED.

Oregon · SPARSE

3,035,930 SSA registrations (near-scale with Nebraska; ABS Δ 579,362). Leader lane may differ from Nebraska's TREND-LED.

New Mexico · SPARSE

1,797,826 SSA registrations (1.4× smaller than Nebraska; ABS Δ 658,742). Leader lane may differ from Nebraska's TREND-LED.

West Virginia · SPARSE

3,118,003 SSA registrations (near-scale with Nebraska; ABS Δ 661,435). Leader lane may differ from Nebraska's TREND-LED.

District of Columbia (volume-lane contrast)

Near Nebraska on SSA registration volume yet stamps QUIET vs SPARSE.

Why names rise and fall

Nebraska 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 - thin-registry states: how small SSA state files are compared without inventing suppressed names.

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.