What is the most popular baby name in Louisiana?

The most popular boy name in Louisiana is James with 89,320 births since 1910. The most popular girl name is Mary with 78,977 births. These rankings are based on cumulative SSA birth registration data.

How have baby names changed in Louisiana over the decades?

Louisiana 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/Amelia (2020s).

How many babies are named in Louisiana?

Our data covers 2,062,996 name registrations in Louisiana for the top 50 boys and top 50 girls names (DENSE volume stamp · #20 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 Louisiana

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

Compiled byNameAlmanac, Independent data publisher

James
#1 boy name: Mary
#1 girl name: 2,062,996
Births recorded: 1910–2025
Years covered

Louisiana's all-time #1 names are James for boys and Mary for girls, based on 2,062,996 SSA birth registrations since 1910.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Louisiana has recorded 2,062,996 births across its top 50 boy and top 50 girl names since 1910. James leads all boys with 89,320 births, while Mary tops the girls with 78,977. This profile covers decade-by-decade leaders and the full top-50 rankings for both sexes.

James #1 boy name
Mary #1 girl name
2,062,996 births recorded

Where Louisiana sits by recorded name volume

Louisiana: 6,049,317 SSA name registrations (DENSE · rank 20/51). Inventory signal only, orthogonal to the top-50 lists below.

Louisiana vs all states by SSA name registrations

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

6,049,317 20th of 51 higher than 31 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

Louisiana naming snapshot

According to SSA state files through 2025, Mary is #1 of 78,977 cumulative SSA births in Louisiana ≠ Amelia #1 of 902 2025 girl names at all-time rank #51; James is #1 of 89,320 cumulative SSA births in Louisiana ≠ Noah #1 of 903 2025 boy names at all-time rank #51.

Amelia
2025 girls #1, all-time #51: Mary
all-time girls #1, 2025 #48: Noah
2025 boys #1, all-time #51: James
all-time boys #1, 2025 #3

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

Louisiana stamps DENSE on disclosed SSA name-state volume (6,049,317 · #20/51). Cumulative top-50 leaders are James (89,320 boy births) and Mary (78,977 girl births) across 2,062,996 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 1,278,085 vs 784,911 for girls.

In Louisiana, 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 Louisiana 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 Amelia 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.

Amelia

212
Olivia

162
Charlotte

161
Emma

125
Sophia

123
Harper

119
Ellie

114
Eleanor

112
Evelyn

110
Lucy

106

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

Noah

237
Liam

223
James

187
Elijah

186
John

181
Oliver

172
William

149
Hudson

133
Joseph

130
Levi

125

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

Mary

78,977
Linda

26,500
Patricia

24,460
Elizabeth

24,172
Barbara

23,639
Dorothy

23,089
Betty

20,460
Jennifer

20,444
Ashley

17,769
Shirley

16,873

What this shows Mary leads Louisiana girls with 78,977 recorded births.

James

89,320
John

85,000
Michael

66,334
Robert

64,425
Joseph

59,030
William

51,713
Charles

50,873
David

49,398
Christopher

37,426
Thomas

29,870

What this shows James leads Louisiana boys with 89,320 recorded births.

Decade-by-Decade Leaders

The #1 boy and girl name in Louisiana 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	5,441	Mary	8,057
1920s	James	9,191	Mary	12,910
1930s	James	9,692	Mary	12,697
1940s	James	14,039	Mary	15,584
1950s	James	15,012	Mary	13,989
1960s	Michael	13,837	Lisa	9,166
1970s	Michael	11,299	Jennifer	7,801
1980s	Christopher	11,554	Ashley	10,032
1990s	Joshua	6,293	Ashley	4,642
2000s	Joshua	3,488	Madison	4,119
2010s	Mason	2,656	Ava	2,829
2020s	Liam	1,536	Amelia	1,261

Boy Top 50 Boy Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	James	89,320
2	John	85,000
3	Michael	66,334
4	Robert	64,425
5	Joseph	59,030
6	William	51,713
7	Charles	50,873
8	David	49,398
9	Christopher	37,426
10	Thomas	29,870
11	Richard	28,595
12	Donald	25,189
13	Kenneth	24,679
14	George	23,694
15	Joshua	23,575
16	Anthony	23,128
17	Willie	22,732
18	Paul	21,746
19	Edward	21,501
20	Daniel	21,102
21	Ronald	20,935
22	Kevin	20,608
23	Matthew	19,693
24	Henry	19,682
25	Mark	18,679
26	Larry	18,597
27	Brandon	18,509
28	Jason	17,481
29	Andrew	17,055
30	Louis	15,755
31	Brian	15,570
32	Frank	14,845
33	Steven	14,595
34	Jerry	14,462
35	Eric	14,402
36	Timothy	14,334
37	Patrick	14,113
38	Gregory	14,046
39	Jacob	13,991
40	Justin	13,875
41	Raymond	13,570
42	Jonathan	13,431
43	Stephen	13,153
44	Gary	13,074
45	Albert	13,019
46	Samuel	13,004
47	Nicholas	12,780
48	Ryan	12,564
49	Walter	11,489
50	Johnny	11,444

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Mary	78,977
2	Linda	26,500
3	Patricia	24,460
4	Elizabeth	24,172
5	Barbara	23,639
6	Dorothy	23,089
7	Betty	20,460
8	Jennifer	20,444
9	Ashley	17,769
10	Shirley	16,873
11	Sarah	16,183
12	Jessica	15,882
13	Lisa	15,447
14	Brenda	15,148
15	Sandra	14,954
16	Cynthia	14,863
17	Carolyn	14,666
18	Margaret	14,511
19	Karen	14,236
20	Helen	14,088
21	Angela	13,956
22	Gloria	13,610
23	Anna	13,300
24	Donna	13,232
25	Marie	13,215
26	Emily	13,105
27	Kimberly	12,863
28	Susan	12,857
29	Melissa	12,757
30	Sharon	12,730
31	Amanda	12,694
32	Michelle	12,674
33	Joyce	12,529
34	Laura	12,394
35	Rebecca	12,277
36	Emma	12,147
37	Pamela	11,887
38	Catherine	11,878
39	Stephanie	11,706
40	Annie	11,584
41	Debra	11,448
42	Deborah	11,404
43	Rose	11,179
44	Alice	10,508
45	Katherine	10,418
46	Evelyn	10,350
47	Amy	10,315
48	Doris	10,059
49	Ruby	10,017
50	Lauren	9,457

Read with Louisiana

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

DENSE TREND-LED

Alabama · DENSE

6,143,935 SSA registrations (near-scale with Louisiana; ABS Δ 94,618). Leader lane may differ from Louisiana's TREND-LED.

Minnesota · DENSE

6,163,259 SSA registrations (near-scale with Louisiana; ABS Δ 113,942). Leader lane may differ from Louisiana's TREND-LED.

Kentucky · DENSE

5,816,248 SSA registrations (near-scale with Louisiana; ABS Δ 233,069). Leader lane may differ from Louisiana's TREND-LED.

Wisconsin · DENSE

6,655,644 SSA registrations (near-scale with Louisiana; ABS Δ 606,327). Leader lane may differ from Louisiana's TREND-LED.

Iowa (volume-lane contrast)

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

Why names rise and fall

Louisiana 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.