What is the most popular baby name in Oklahoma?

The most popular boy name in Oklahoma is James with 75,761 births since 1910. The most popular girl name is Mary with 56,073 births. These rankings are based on cumulative SSA birth registration data.

How have baby names changed in Oklahoma over the decades?

Oklahoma 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 Liam/Olivia (2020s).

How many babies are named in Oklahoma?

Our data covers 1,629,322 name registrations in Oklahoma for the top 50 boys and top 50 girls names (DENSE volume stamp · #25 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 Oklahoma

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

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James
#1 boy name: Mary
#1 girl name: 1,629,322
Births recorded: 1910–2025
Years covered

Oklahoma's all-time #1 names are James for boys and Mary for girls, based on 1,629,322 SSA birth registrations since 1910.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Oklahoma has recorded 1,629,322 births across its top 50 boy and top 50 girl names since 1910. James leads all boys with 75,761 births, while Mary tops the girls with 56,073. This profile covers decade-by-decade leaders and the full top-50 rankings for both sexes.

James #1 boy name
Mary #1 girl name
1,629,322 births recorded

Where Oklahoma sits by recorded name volume

Oklahoma: 4,551,265 SSA name registrations (DENSE · rank 25/51). Inventory signal only, orthogonal to the top-50 lists below.

Oklahoma vs all states by SSA name registrations

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

4,551,265 25th of 51 higher than 26 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

Oklahoma naming snapshot

According to SSA state files through 2025, Mary is #1 of 56,073 cumulative SSA births in Oklahoma ≠ Olivia #1 of 830 2025 girl names at all-time rank #51; James is #1 of 75,761 cumulative SSA births in Oklahoma ≠ Liam #1 of 806 2025 boy names at all-time rank #51.

Olivia
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 #10

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

Oklahoma stamps DENSE on disclosed SSA name-state volume (4,551,265 · #25/51). Cumulative top-50 leaders are James (75,761 boy births) and Mary (56,073 girl births) across 1,629,322 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 1,006,368 vs 622,954 for girls.

In Oklahoma, 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 Oklahoma 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 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

178
Charlotte

174
Amelia

161
Sophia

133
Emma

123
Evelyn

122
Isabella

120
Harper

109
Violet

104
Mia

101

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

Liam

232
Noah

189
Oliver

188
Theodore

177
Elijah

175
Hudson

167
Henry

151
Waylon

138
Mateo

136
James

133

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

Mary

56,073
Betty

27,498
Linda

22,877
Barbara

18,835
Patricia

18,682
Jennifer

17,642
Dorothy

16,765
Elizabeth

16,153
Helen

14,234
Donna

13,621

What this shows Mary leads Oklahoma girls with 56,073 recorded births.

James

75,761
John

57,711
Robert

55,669
William

50,423
Michael

47,187
David

44,036
Charles

39,425
Richard

26,870
Christopher

25,110
Billy

23,571

What this shows James leads Oklahoma boys with 75,761 recorded births.

Decade-by-Decade Leaders

The #1 boy and girl name in Oklahoma 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	5,596	Mary	6,797
1920s	James	11,983	Mary	13,971
1930s	James	10,843	Mary	11,802
1940s	James	11,252	Linda	11,370
1950s	James	9,890	Linda	7,678
1960s	Michael	8,120	Lisa	5,135
1970s	Michael	8,843	Jennifer	6,910
1980s	Christopher	8,096	Jennifer	6,642
1990s	Joshua	4,387	Ashley	3,726
2000s	Jacob	3,599	Madison	2,906
2010s	Noah	1,999	Emma	2,497
2020s	Liam	1,383	Olivia	1,243

Boy Top 50 Boy Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	James	75,761
2	John	57,711
3	Robert	55,669
4	William	50,423
5	Michael	47,187
6	David	44,036
7	Charles	39,425
8	Richard	26,870
9	Christopher	25,110
10	Billy	23,571
11	Kenneth	22,744
12	Donald	22,660
13	Thomas	21,538
14	Jerry	19,768
15	Larry	18,683
16	Jack	17,708
17	Joshua	17,671
18	Matthew	17,436
19	Joseph	17,433
20	George	17,190
21	Gary	16,437
22	Steven	16,326
23	Paul	16,181
24	Daniel	16,047
25	Mark	15,123
26	Bobby	14,936
27	Ronald	14,249
28	Joe	14,184
29	Jimmy	13,760
30	Jason	13,493
31	Jacob	12,876
32	Kevin	12,269
33	Justin	12,125
34	Roy	11,466
35	Brian	11,412
36	Andrew	11,260
37	Harold	11,067
38	Timothy	11,017
39	Brandon	11,012
40	Raymond	10,877
41	Anthony	10,770
42	Carl	10,722
43	Ryan	10,715
44	Terry	10,325
45	Edward	10,277
46	Stephen	10,207
47	Samuel	9,877
48	Jeffrey	9,603
49	Johnny	9,599
50	Tyler	9,562

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Mary	56,073
2	Betty	27,498
3	Linda	22,877
4	Barbara	18,835
5	Patricia	18,682
6	Jennifer	17,642
7	Dorothy	16,765
8	Elizabeth	16,153
9	Helen	14,234
10	Donna	13,621
11	Wanda	13,135
12	Sarah	12,899
13	Margaret	12,618
14	Shirley	12,120
15	Jessica	11,829
16	Ruth	11,561
17	Ruby	11,442
18	Ashley	11,392
19	Virginia	11,241
20	Karen	11,232
21	Sharon	11,119
22	Carolyn	11,037
23	Amanda	10,930
24	Kimberly	10,578
25	Nancy	10,571
26	Lisa	10,463
27	Anna	10,397
28	Carol	10,065
29	Sandra	10,049
30	Rebecca	9,832
31	Emily	9,807
32	Susan	9,737
33	Angela	9,716
34	Emma	9,625
35	Stephanie	9,215
36	Mildred	9,069
37	Brenda	8,981
38	Joyce	8,977
39	Amy	8,967
40	Deborah	8,921
41	Laura	8,880
42	Melissa	8,776
43	Evelyn	8,567
44	Frances	8,324
45	Norma	8,319
46	Pamela	8,305
47	Cynthia	8,141
48	Doris	8,100
49	Juanita	7,848
50	Martha	7,789

Read with Oklahoma

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

DENSE TREND-LED

Iowa · SPARSE

4,430,195 SSA registrations (near-scale with Oklahoma; ABS Δ 121,070). Leader lane may differ from Oklahoma's TREND-LED.

South Carolina · DENSE

4,858,777 SSA registrations (near-scale with Oklahoma; ABS Δ 307,512). Leader lane may differ from Oklahoma's TREND-LED.

Mississippi · SPARSE

4,242,975 SSA registrations (near-scale with Oklahoma; ABS Δ 308,290). Leader lane may differ from Oklahoma's TREND-LED.

Arizona · SPARSE

4,092,941 SSA registrations (near-scale with Oklahoma; ABS Δ 458,324). Leader lane may differ from Oklahoma's TREND-LED.

Why names rise and fall

Oklahoma 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.