What is the most popular baby name in Florida?

On a heavy SSA book, Florida's cumulative #1 boy is Michael (147,835 births) and #1 girl is Mary (66,969 births) since 1910.

How have baby names changed in Florida over the decades?

Florida 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 Florida?

Our data covers 3,832,771 name registrations in Florida for the top 50 boys and top 50 girls names (HEAVY volume stamp · #8 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 Florida

The boys' and girls' names most often given in Florida, 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: 3,832,771
Births recorded: 1910–2025
Years covered

Florida's all-time #1 names are Michael for boys and Mary for girls, based on 3,832,771 SSA birth registrations since 1910.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Florida has recorded 3,832,771 births across its top 50 boy and top 50 girl names since 1910. Michael leads all boys with 147,835 births, while Mary tops the girls with 66,969. This profile covers decade-by-decade leaders and the full top-50 rankings for both sexes.

Michael #1 boy name
Mary #1 girl name
3,832,771 births recorded

Where Florida sits by recorded name volume

Florida: 11,447,493 SSA name registrations (HEAVY · rank 8/51). Inventory signal only, orthogonal to the top-50 lists below.

Florida vs all states by SSA name registrations

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

11,447,493 8th of 51 higher than 43 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

Florida naming snapshot

According to SSA state files through 2025, Mary is #1 of 66,969 cumulative SSA births in Florida ≠ Olivia #1 of 2,482 2025 girl names at all-time rank #19; Michael is #1 of 147,835 cumulative SSA births in Florida ≠ Liam #1 of 2,105 2025 boy names at all-time rank #47.

Olivia
2025 girls #1, all-time #19: Mary
all-time girls #1, 2025 #51: Liam
2025 boys #1, all-time #47: Michael
all-time boys #1, 2025 #20

Both sexes in Florida 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 heavy registry book shows for Florida

Florida sits in the heaviest third of SSA name-state registration totals (11,447,493 · HEAVY · #8/51). Cumulative top-50 leaders are Michael (147,835 boy births) and Mary (66,969 girl births) across 3,832,771 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 2,457,670 vs 1,375,101 for girls.

In Florida, 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 heavy state file

Decade-by-decade data for Florida 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

1,020
Mia

993
Isabella

992
Emma

986
Sophia

970
Amelia

908
Charlotte

773
Sofia

705
Valentina

600
Eliana

515

What this shows Olivia leads 2025 girls in Florida; Mary remains the all-time cumulative #1 at rank #19 in 2025.

Liam

1,865
Noah

1,749
Lucas

935
Elijah

868
Oliver

831
Mateo

775
Luca

710
James

672
Benjamin

660
Matthew

658

What this shows Liam leads 2025 boys in Florida; Michael remains the all-time cumulative #1 at rank #47 in 2025.

Mary

66,969
Jennifer

54,732
Jessica

47,219
Elizabeth

46,830
Ashley

46,736
Sarah

38,668
Emily

37,099
Amanda

35,871
Patricia

35,121
Isabella

33,744

What this shows Mary leads Florida girls with 66,969 recorded births.

Michael

147,835
James

144,855
John

118,818
Robert

115,931
David

107,377
William

106,957
Christopher

93,665
Daniel

71,477
Joseph

70,923
Matthew

66,270

What this shows Michael leads Florida boys with 147,835 recorded births.

Decade-by-Decade Leaders

The #1 boy and girl name in Florida 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	4,529	Mary	4,311
1920s	James	8,848	Mary	8,511
1930s	James	8,813	Mary	7,958
1940s	James	15,284	Mary	11,172
1950s	James	20,595	Linda	12,664
1960s	Michael	21,376	Lisa	11,831
1970s	Michael	23,143	Jennifer	18,557
1980s	Michael	29,173	Jessica	21,428
1990s	Michael	24,901	Ashley	16,906
2000s	Michael	15,189	Isabella	11,985
2010s	Liam	11,544	Isabella	14,382
2020s	Liam	10,363	Olivia	6,751

Boy Top 50 Boy Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Michael	147,835
2	James	144,855
3	John	118,818
4	Robert	115,931
5	David	107,377
6	William	106,957
7	Christopher	93,665
8	Daniel	71,477
9	Joseph	70,923
10	Matthew	66,270
11	Charles	63,090
12	Joshua	61,926
13	Anthony	60,538
14	Richard	58,806
15	Thomas	55,310
16	Andrew	44,265
17	Jonathan	43,205
18	Jason	41,019
19	Kevin	40,966
20	Alexander	40,965
21	Ryan	40,817
22	Jacob	40,649
23	Nicholas	39,443
24	Justin	37,288
25	Brandon	36,070
26	Steven	35,423
27	Brian	35,106
28	Kenneth	34,286
29	Mark	33,288
30	Timothy	33,167
31	Samuel	31,660
32	George	31,473
33	Benjamin	30,855
34	Noah	30,823
35	Eric	30,583
36	Tyler	29,037
37	Christian	27,822
38	Paul	26,665
39	Donald	26,207
40	Dylan	25,906
41	Edward	25,862
42	Willie	25,348
43	Zachary	25,072
44	Stephen	24,932
45	Ethan	24,752
46	Ronald	24,735
47	Liam	24,238
48	Jeffrey	24,164
49	Gabriel	24,149
50	Elijah	23,652

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Mary	66,969
2	Jennifer	54,732
3	Jessica	47,219
4	Elizabeth	46,830
5	Ashley	46,736
6	Sarah	38,668
7	Emily	37,099
8	Amanda	35,871
9	Patricia	35,121
10	Isabella	33,744
11	Stephanie	32,370
12	Linda	31,889
13	Kimberly	31,222
14	Emma	30,274
15	Michelle	29,800
16	Melissa	29,795
17	Samantha	29,719
18	Barbara	28,987
19	Olivia	28,972
20	Victoria	28,576
21	Nicole	27,903
22	Sophia	27,757
23	Lisa	26,510
24	Angela	23,992
25	Rebecca	23,752
26	Cynthia	22,344
27	Christina	22,328
28	Madison	22,042
29	Susan	21,774
30	Sandra	21,693
31	Lauren	21,666
32	Mia	21,425
33	Laura	21,237
34	Heather	21,216
35	Karen	20,765
36	Rachel	20,608
37	Brittany	20,264
38	Katherine	20,119
39	Amy	20,112
40	Deborah	20,039
41	Betty	19,724
42	Hannah	18,979
43	Kayla	18,669
44	Abigail	18,632
45	Tiffany	18,359
46	Ava	17,995
47	Margaret	17,811
48	Alexis	17,766
49	Sharon	17,720
50	Danielle	17,307

Read with Florida

Nearest ABS peers for a heavy-registry state (Florida · HEAVY · TREND-LED).

HEAVY TREND-LED

Michigan · HEAVY

12,648,459 SSA registrations (near-scale with Florida; ABS Δ 1,200,966). Leader lane may differ from Florida's TREND-LED.

North Carolina · HEAVY

9,597,543 SSA registrations (near-scale with Florida; ABS Δ 1,849,950). Leader lane may differ from Florida's TREND-LED.

Georgia · HEAVY

9,368,996 SSA registrations (near-scale with Florida; ABS Δ 2,078,497). Leader lane may differ from Florida's TREND-LED.

New Jersey · HEAVY

9,242,220 SSA registrations (near-scale with Florida; ABS Δ 2,205,273). Leader lane may differ from Florida's TREND-LED.

Indiana (volume-lane contrast)

Near Florida on SSA registration volume yet stamps DENSE vs HEAVY.

Why names rise and fall

Florida stamps HEAVY · 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 - heavy-registry states: how cumulative leaders and latest-year splits are computed.

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.