What is the most popular baby name in Kansas?

The most popular boy name in Kansas is Robert with 51,582 births since 1910. The most popular girl name is Mary with 43,390 births. These rankings are based on cumulative SSA birth registration data.

How have baby names changed in Kansas over the decades?

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

How many babies are named in Kansas?

Our data covers 1,338,239 name registrations in Kansas for the top 50 boys and top 50 girls names (SPARSE volume stamp · #32 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 Kansas

The boys' and girls' names most often given in Kansas, 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: 1,338,239
Births recorded: 1910–2025
Years covered

Kansas's all-time #1 names are Robert for boys and Mary for girls, based on 1,338,239 SSA birth registrations since 1910.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Kansas has recorded 1,338,239 births across its top 50 boy and top 50 girl names since 1910. Robert leads all boys with 51,582 births, while Mary tops the girls with 43,390. This profile covers decade-by-decade leaders and the full top-50 rankings for both sexes.

Robert #1 boy name
Mary #1 girl name
1,338,239 births recorded

Where Kansas sits by recorded name volume

Kansas: 3,531,180 SSA name registrations (SPARSE · rank 32/51). Inventory signal only, orthogonal to the top-50 lists below.

Kansas vs all states by SSA name registrations

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

3,531,180 32nd of 51 higher than 19 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

Kansas naming snapshot

According to SSA state files through 2025, Mary is #1 of 43,390 cumulative SSA births in Kansas ≠ Charlotte #1 of 690 2025 girl names at all-time rank #51; Robert is #1 of 51,582 cumulative SSA births in Kansas ≠ Theodore #1 of 692 2025 boy names at all-time rank #51.

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

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

Kansas stamps SPARSE on disclosed SSA name-state volume (3,531,180 · #32/51). Cumulative top-50 leaders are Robert (51,582 boy births) and Mary (43,390 girl births) across 1,338,239 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 820,293 vs 517,946 for girls.

In Kansas, 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 Kansas extends back to 1910. In the 1910s, the #1 boy name was John and the #1 girl name was Mary. By the 2020s, the top names had shifted to Liam 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

178
Olivia

127
Evelyn

123
Amelia

120
Eleanor

118
Sophia

117
Emma

105
Harper

103
Lainey

99
Mia

93

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

Theodore

183
Oliver

179
Noah

167
Liam

164
Henry

150
James

141
Hudson

135
William

121
Elijah

119
Bennett

118

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

Mary

43,390
Linda

17,465
Betty

16,936
Patricia

16,771
Barbara

15,355
Jennifer

14,855
Elizabeth

14,707
Dorothy

14,077
Margaret

12,489
Helen

11,935

What this shows Mary leads Kansas girls with 43,390 recorded births.

Robert

51,582
John

48,077
James

47,724
Michael

42,059
William

37,865
David

37,492
Richard

28,247
Charles

27,999
Donald

22,439
Christopher

18,583

What this shows Robert leads Kansas boys with 51,582 recorded births.

Decade-by-Decade Leaders

The #1 boy and girl name in Kansas 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	4,396	Mary	5,858
1920s	Robert	9,481	Mary	9,384
1930s	Robert	7,825	Mary	7,558
1940s	Robert	7,911	Linda	7,245
1950s	Michael	10,698	Linda	6,944
1960s	Michael	8,028	Lisa	4,636
1970s	Michael	6,362	Jennifer	6,424
1980s	Michael	5,533	Jessica	5,170
1990s	Jacob	3,887	Ashley	2,822
2000s	Jacob	2,752	Emma	2,252
2010s	Liam	1,726	Emma	1,972
2020s	Liam	1,033	Charlotte	958

Boy Top 50 Boy Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Robert	51,582
2	John	48,077
3	James	47,724
4	Michael	42,059
5	William	37,865
6	David	37,492
7	Richard	28,247
8	Charles	27,999
9	Donald	22,439
10	Christopher	18,583
11	Thomas	18,021
12	Kenneth	17,581
13	Joseph	17,154
14	Daniel	16,697
15	Steven	16,541
16	Larry	16,424
17	Mark	16,295
18	Matthew	16,097
19	Gary	15,074
20	Ronald	13,967
21	Paul	13,893
22	Joshua	13,162
23	George	12,704
24	Brian	12,293
25	Andrew	12,217
26	Kevin	11,941
27	Jack	11,688
28	Jason	11,549
29	Jacob	11,422
30	Timothy	10,975
31	Ryan	10,218
32	Harold	10,203
33	Jeffrey	9,893
34	Jerry	9,470
35	Anthony	9,454
36	Scott	9,262
37	Edward	9,223
38	Raymond	8,746
39	Justin	8,640
40	Eric	8,483
41	Dennis	8,453
42	Stephen	8,289
43	Brandon	8,242
44	Benjamin	7,990
45	Aaron	7,852
46	Nicholas	7,730
47	Samuel	7,687
48	Tyler	7,658
49	Terry	7,582
50	Gregory	7,456

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Mary	43,390
2	Linda	17,465
3	Betty	16,936
4	Patricia	16,771
5	Barbara	15,355
6	Jennifer	14,855
7	Elizabeth	14,707
8	Dorothy	14,077
9	Margaret	12,489
10	Helen	11,935
11	Karen	11,723
12	Donna	11,673
13	Susan	10,902
14	Carol	10,777
15	Nancy	10,759
16	Sarah	10,628
17	Ruth	10,420
18	Jessica	10,331
19	Sharon	10,022
20	Virginia	9,583
21	Shirley	9,379
22	Rebecca	9,232
23	Michelle	9,089
24	Lisa	9,034
25	Kimberly	8,782
26	Ashley	8,774
27	Debra	8,690
28	Emily	8,614
29	Amy	8,557
30	Sandra	8,408
31	Anna	8,210
32	Amanda	8,098
33	Angela	8,014
34	Janet	7,853
35	Cynthia	7,821
36	Melissa	7,512
37	Pamela	7,479
38	Emma	7,281
39	Laura	7,255
40	Stephanie	7,239
41	Evelyn	7,173
42	Brenda	7,152
43	Deborah	6,927
44	Joyce	6,909
45	Julie	6,795
46	Doris	6,678
47	Carolyn	6,665
48	Marilyn	6,596
49	Katherine	6,585
50	Connie	6,347

Read with Kansas

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

SPARSE TREND-LED

Arkansas · SPARSE

3,623,589 SSA registrations (near-scale with Kansas; ABS Δ 92,409). Leader lane may differ from Kansas's TREND-LED.

Connecticut · SPARSE

3,668,373 SSA registrations (near-scale with Kansas; ABS Δ 137,193). Leader lane may differ from Kansas's TREND-LED.

West Virginia · SPARSE

3,118,003 SSA registrations (near-scale with Kansas; ABS Δ 413,177). Leader lane may differ from Kansas's TREND-LED.

Colorado · SPARSE

4,011,208 SSA registrations (near-scale with Kansas; ABS Δ 480,028). Leader lane may differ from Kansas's TREND-LED.

Oklahoma (volume-lane contrast)

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

Why names rise and fall

Kansas 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.