What is the most popular baby name in Michigan?

On a heavy SSA book, Michigan's cumulative #1 boy is Robert (216,253 births) and #1 girl is Mary (137,760 births) since 1910.

How have baby names changed in Michigan over the decades?

Michigan 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 Noah/Charlotte (2020s).

How many babies are named in Michigan?

Our data covers 5,308,619 name registrations in Michigan for the top 50 boys and top 50 girls names (HEAVY volume stamp · #7 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 Michigan

The boys' and girls' names most often given in Michigan, 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: 5,308,619
Births recorded: 1910–2025
Years covered

Michigan's all-time #1 names are Robert for boys and Mary for girls, based on 5,308,619 SSA birth registrations since 1910.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Michigan has recorded 5,308,619 births across its top 50 boy and top 50 girl names since 1910. Robert leads all boys with 216,253 births, while Mary tops the girls with 137,760. This profile covers decade-by-decade leaders and the full top-50 rankings for both sexes.

Robert #1 boy name
Mary #1 girl name
5,308,619 births recorded

Where Michigan sits by recorded name volume

Michigan: 12,648,459 SSA name registrations (HEAVY · rank 7/51). Inventory signal only, orthogonal to the top-50 lists below.

Michigan vs all states by SSA name registrations

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

12,648,459 7th of 51 higher than 44 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

Michigan naming snapshot

According to SSA state files through 2025, Mary is #1 of 137,760 cumulative SSA births in Michigan ≠ Charlotte #1 of 1,410 2025 girl names at all-time rank #51; Robert is #1 of 216,253 cumulative SSA births in Michigan ≠ Theodore #1 of 1,256 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 Michigan 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 Michigan

Michigan sits in the heaviest third of SSA name-state registration totals (12,648,459 · HEAVY · #7/51). Cumulative top-50 leaders are Robert (216,253 boy births) and Mary (137,760 girl births) across 5,308,619 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 3,367,936 vs 1,940,683 for girls.

In Michigan, 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 Michigan 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 Noah 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

381
Amelia

368
Sophia

341
Eleanor

294
Evelyn

286
Olivia

285
Violet

261
Emma

257
Lainey

250
Harper

235

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

Theodore

490
Noah

478
Oliver

469
Henry

433
James

342
Jack

337
Hudson

333
Liam

332
Levi

315
Elijah

312

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

Mary

137,760
Patricia

73,946
Barbara

66,725
Linda

64,393
Jennifer

60,487
Susan

57,312
Elizabeth

54,684
Karen

51,735
Nancy

49,033
Margaret

45,304

What this shows Mary leads Michigan girls with 137,760 recorded births.

Robert

216,253
Michael

198,640
James

189,909
John

182,688
David

167,117
William

143,624
Richard

119,356
Thomas

105,953
Joseph

94,694
Daniel

82,008

What this shows Robert leads Michigan boys with 216,253 recorded births.

Decade-by-Decade Leaders

The #1 boy and girl name in Michigan 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	10,430	Mary	11,212
1920s	Robert	28,584	Mary	20,107
1930s	Robert	28,923	Mary	20,345
1940s	Robert	35,470	Mary	26,180
1950s	Michael	45,393	Mary	30,498
1960s	Michael	39,816	Lisa	22,285
1970s	Michael	32,014	Jennifer	28,405
1980s	Michael	27,009	Jessica	18,032
1990s	Michael	16,940	Ashley	11,817
2000s	Jacob	10,770	Madison	7,508
2010s	Noah	5,313	Olivia	5,645
2020s	Noah	2,874	Charlotte	2,585

Boy Top 50 Boy Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Robert	216,253
2	Michael	198,640
3	James	189,909
4	John	182,688
5	David	167,117
6	William	143,624
7	Richard	119,356
8	Thomas	105,953
9	Joseph	94,694
10	Daniel	82,008
11	Charles	80,475
12	Donald	77,069
13	Mark	74,040
14	Christopher	73,051
15	Matthew	69,138
16	Kenneth	63,333
17	Steven	62,609
18	Ronald	60,361
19	Paul	59,525
20	Brian	57,552
21	Timothy	56,186
22	Andrew	54,443
23	Anthony	52,891
24	Kevin	51,134
25	Jeffrey	50,928
26	Edward	50,154
27	Gary	49,242
28	Scott	47,541
29	Jason	46,181
30	George	45,376
31	Joshua	44,564
32	Ryan	41,408
33	Eric	40,857
34	Jacob	40,440
35	Dennis	38,680
36	Nicholas	38,507
37	Jack	36,469
38	Gregory	35,872
39	Larry	35,699
40	Gerald	35,389
41	Douglas	34,563
42	Patrick	33,000
43	Raymond	32,152
44	Stephen	29,980
45	Benjamin	29,821
46	Frank	29,372
47	Brandon	29,072
48	Justin	28,376
49	Adam	26,707
50	Alexander	25,537

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Mary	137,760
2	Patricia	73,946
3	Barbara	66,725
4	Linda	64,393
5	Jennifer	60,487
6	Susan	57,312
7	Elizabeth	54,684
8	Karen	51,735
9	Nancy	49,033
10	Margaret	45,304
11	Carol	44,893
12	Lisa	44,630
13	Sandra	43,038
14	Michelle	39,696
15	Sarah	39,603
16	Kathleen	38,756
17	Sharon	38,654
18	Kimberly	37,913
19	Jessica	37,875
20	Dorothy	37,371
21	Betty	36,371
22	Donna	35,211
23	Deborah	34,412
24	Helen	33,584
25	Laura	32,926
26	Amy	32,851
27	Shirley	32,003
28	Ruth	30,880
29	Emily	30,847
30	Diane	30,820
31	Julie	30,808
32	Amanda	30,672
33	Pamela	30,369
34	Rebecca	29,309
35	Janet	29,164
36	Cynthia	29,105
37	Melissa	29,076
38	Ashley	28,823
39	Nicole	28,237
40	Christine	28,113
41	Angela	27,771
42	Debra	26,256
43	Stephanie	25,916
44	Cheryl	25,853
45	Virginia	25,231
46	Kelly	25,024
47	Judith	24,853
48	Heather	24,620
49	Joyce	24,405
50	Katherine	23,365

Read with Michigan

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

HEAVY TREND-LED

Florida · HEAVY

11,447,493 SSA registrations (near-scale with Michigan; ABS Δ 1,200,966). Leader lane may differ from Michigan's TREND-LED.

Ohio · HEAVY

15,480,878 SSA registrations (near-scale with Michigan; ABS Δ 2,832,419). Leader lane may differ from Michigan's TREND-LED.

North Carolina · HEAVY

9,597,543 SSA registrations (near-scale with Michigan; ABS Δ 3,050,916). Leader lane may differ from Michigan's TREND-LED.

Georgia · HEAVY

9,368,996 SSA registrations (1.4× smaller than Michigan; ABS Δ 3,279,463). Leader lane may differ from Michigan's TREND-LED.

Illinois (volume-lane contrast)

Near Michigan on SSA registration volume yet stamps MEGA vs HEAVY.

Why names rise and fall

Michigan 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.