Baby names in Iowa in the 2020s

In Iowa in the 2020s the most given names were Oliver (1,197 boys) and Charlotte (942 girls), of 152,419 births recorded.

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Babies SSA recorded in Iowa each year, the 2020s shaded

Births under names given to 5 or more babies of one sex in the state that year.

Iowa, 2020-2025: SSA state baby-name file, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s state data.

The top names in Iowa, 2020s

Girls, 2020-2025
#	Name	Births
1	Charlotte	942
2	Olivia	858
3	Amelia	745
4	Evelyn	726
5	Emma	698
6	Harper	668
7	Ava	654
8	Eleanor	619
9	Sophia	596
10	Hazel	562
11	Nora	562
12	Violet	473
13	Willow	468
14	Mia	461
15	Ellie	454
16	Isabella	436
17	Aurora	429
18	Ivy	429
19	Scarlett	427
20	Avery	406

Boys, 2020-2025
#	Name	Births
1	Oliver	1,197
2	Liam	1,034
3	Henry	1,028
4	Theodore	930
5	Noah	765
6	Jack	716
7	Hudson	705
8	William	696
9	Owen	682
10	Elijah	646
11	James	643
12	Asher	617
13	Maverick	590
14	Brooks	585
15	Cooper	585
16	Leo	573
17	Wyatt	567
18	Benjamin	539
19	Bennett	533
20	Jackson	519

Births summed over 2020-2025, per sex.

The names most over-represented in Iowa in the 2020s

Each figure is the name’s births in the state in the decade against the births its national share, year by year, would predict (names with at least 100 births in the state).

Girls

Briar · 3.3×Maren · 3.1×Hattie · 2.4×Brynlee · 2.3×Wrenley · 2.3×Collins · 2.2×

Boys

Huxley · 3.8×Briggs · 3.3×Tate · 3.1×Ledger · 3.1×Lane · 2.8×Beckett · 2.7×

Ratios: observed over predicted births, 2020-2025.

More about names in Iowa

The 2020s across the U.S.The most given names of the decade nationally.
Iowa: 2025 and every year since 1910The state’s top names now and its number ones by year.
The top names of 2020The first year of the decade, nationally.
Every state’s most given namesEach state since 1910.
Look up any nameIts rank, births since 1880 and the people alive with it.

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