What is the most popular baby name in Oregon?

The most popular boy name in Oregon is Michael with 40,534 births since 1910. The most popular girl name is Mary with 19,884 births. These rankings are based on cumulative SSA birth registration data.

How have baby names changed in Oregon over the decades?

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

How many babies are named in Oregon?

Our data covers 1,137,020 name registrations in Oregon for the top 50 boys and top 50 girls names (SPARSE volume stamp · #34 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 Oregon

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

Compiled byNameAlmanac, Independent data publisher

Michael
#1 boy name: Mary
#1 girl name: 1,137,020
Births recorded: 1910–2025
Years covered

Oregon's all-time #1 names are Michael for boys and Mary for girls, based on 1,137,020 SSA birth registrations since 1910.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Oregon has recorded 1,137,020 births across its top 50 boy and top 50 girl names since 1910. Michael leads all boys with 40,534 births, while Mary tops the girls with 19,884. This profile covers decade-by-decade leaders and the full top-50 rankings for both sexes.

Michael #1 boy name
Mary #1 girl name
1,137,020 births recorded

Where Oregon sits by recorded name volume

Oregon: 3,035,930 SSA name registrations (SPARSE · rank 34/51). Inventory signal only, orthogonal to the top-50 lists below.

Oregon vs all states by SSA name registrations

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

3,035,930 34th of 51 higher than 17 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

Oregon naming snapshot

According to SSA state files through 2025, Mary is #1 of 19,884 cumulative SSA births in Oregon ≠ Charlotte #1 of 728 2025 girl names at all-time rank #51; Michael is #1 of 40,534 cumulative SSA births in Oregon ≠ Oliver #1 of 708 2025 boy names at all-time rank #51.

Charlotte
2025 girls #1, all-time #51: Mary
all-time girls #1, 2025 #51: Oliver
2025 boys #1, all-time #51: Michael
all-time boys #1, 2025 #49

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

Oregon stamps SPARSE on disclosed SSA name-state volume (3,035,930 · #34/51). Cumulative top-50 leaders are Michael (40,534 boy births) and Mary (19,884 girl births) across 1,137,020 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 724,033 vs 412,987 for girls.

In Oregon, 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 Oregon extends back to 1910. In the 1910s, the #1 boy name was Robert and the #1 girl name was Mary. By the 2020s, the top names had shifted to Oliver 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.

Charlotte

167
Amelia

163
Olivia

149
Emma

139
Sophia

124
Evelyn

121
Violet

115
Hazel

110
Penelope

98
Aurora

97

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

Oliver

199
Theodore

188
Liam

185
Henry

182
Noah

151
Mateo

127
Benjamin

123
Hudson

121
William

117
Jack

113

What this shows Oliver leads 2025 boys in Oregon; Michael remains the all-time cumulative #1 at rank #51 in 2025.

Mary

19,884
Jennifer

15,953
Linda

14,139
Elizabeth

13,136
Patricia

12,382
Sarah

11,900
Jessica

11,700
Susan

11,601
Barbara

11,221
Emily

10,410

What this shows Mary leads Oregon girls with 19,884 recorded births.

Michael

40,534
Robert

38,828
David

37,514
James

35,685
John

33,420
William

27,629
Richard

23,152
Daniel

21,209
Christopher

18,909
Matthew

16,773

What this shows Michael leads Oregon boys with 40,534 recorded births.

Decade-by-Decade Leaders

The #1 boy and girl name in Oregon 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	Robert	2,041	Mary	1,722
1920s	Robert	4,750	Mary	2,747
1930s	Robert	3,873	Mary	2,203
1940s	Robert	6,164	Linda	5,886
1950s	David	8,398	Linda	5,323
1960s	Michael	6,853	Lisa	3,962
1970s	Jason	6,448	Jennifer	6,775
1980s	Michael	6,452	Jessica	4,861
1990s	Jacob	4,607	Jessica	3,479
2000s	Jacob	3,036	Emily	2,569
2010s	Liam	2,102	Emma	2,270
2020s	Oliver	1,340	Olivia	1,025

Boy Top 50 Boy Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Michael	40,534
2	Robert	38,828
3	David	37,514
4	James	35,685
5	John	33,420
6	William	27,629
7	Richard	23,152
8	Daniel	21,209
9	Christopher	18,909
10	Matthew	16,773
11	Thomas	16,377
12	Joseph	15,603
13	Steven	15,536
14	Joshua	14,826
15	Donald	14,245
16	Charles	14,236
17	Andrew	14,181
18	Mark	13,893
19	Ryan	13,281
20	Jacob	13,182
21	Brian	12,961
22	Jason	12,579
23	Kenneth	12,161
24	Kevin	11,451
25	Gary	11,330
26	Timothy	11,269
27	Ronald	11,074
28	Benjamin	10,871
29	Scott	10,747
30	Jeffrey	10,703
31	Anthony	10,135
32	Paul	9,852
33	Nicholas	9,652
34	Jack	9,357
35	Eric	9,284
36	Justin	9,281
37	Tyler	9,083
38	Brandon	8,813
39	Samuel	8,599
40	Larry	8,477
41	Alexander	8,417
42	Jonathan	8,322
43	Aaron	8,313
44	George	8,099
45	Nathan	7,834
46	Douglas	7,737
47	Kyle	7,322
48	Patrick	7,223
49	Dennis	7,045
50	Stephen	7,029

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Mary	19,884
2	Jennifer	15,953
3	Linda	14,139
4	Elizabeth	13,136
5	Patricia	12,382
6	Sarah	11,900
7	Jessica	11,700
8	Susan	11,601
9	Barbara	11,221
10	Emily	10,410
11	Karen	9,829
12	Nancy	9,049
13	Michelle	8,944
14	Lisa	8,812
15	Ashley	8,414
16	Rebecca	8,177
17	Amanda	8,132
18	Carol	8,029
19	Kimberly	8,011
20	Sandra	7,972
21	Julie	7,958
22	Melissa	7,605
23	Sharon	7,504
24	Margaret	7,475
25	Amy	7,460
26	Emma	7,304
27	Angela	7,285
28	Donna	7,277
29	Kathleen	7,240
30	Stephanie	7,236
31	Laura	7,093
32	Heather	6,941
33	Betty	6,747
34	Olivia	6,523
35	Hannah	6,393
36	Dorothy	6,382
37	Samantha	6,332
38	Rachel	6,282
39	Nicole	6,250
40	Anna	6,199
41	Debra	6,163
42	Katherine	6,103
43	Megan	6,022
44	Janet	5,950
45	Teresa	5,401
46	Evelyn	5,380
47	Helen	5,309
48	Shirley	5,265
49	Cynthia	5,180
50	Pamela	5,033

Read with Oregon

Nearest ABS(SSA name-registration volume) peers for Oregon (SPARSE · TREND-LED).

SPARSE TREND-LED

West Virginia · SPARSE

3,118,003 SSA registrations (near-scale with Oregon; ABS Δ 82,073). Leader lane may differ from Oregon's TREND-LED.

Utah · SPARSE

2,749,892 SSA registrations (near-scale with Oregon; ABS Δ 286,038). Leader lane may differ from Oregon's TREND-LED.

Kansas · SPARSE

3,531,180 SSA registrations (near-scale with Oregon; ABS Δ 495,250). Leader lane may differ from Oregon's TREND-LED.

Nebraska · SPARSE

2,456,568 SSA registrations (near-scale with Oregon; ABS Δ 579,362). Leader lane may differ from Oregon's TREND-LED.

Oklahoma (volume-lane contrast)

Near Oregon on SSA registration volume yet stamps DENSE vs SPARSE.

Why names rise and fall

Oregon 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 - 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.