Skip to main content

Baby names in North Dakota in the 2020s

In North Dakota in the 2020s the most given names were Oliver (332 boys) and Evelyn (242 girls), of 36,315 births recorded.

Babies SSA recorded in North Dakota each year, the 2020s shaded
North Dakota births by year and sex2k4k6k8k19101930195019701990201020252020-2025BoysGirls
North Dakota births by year and sex2k4k6k8k19101930195019701990201020252020-2025BoysGirls
North Dakota births by year and sex2k4k6k8k19101930195019701990201020252020-2025BoysGirls
North Dakota births by year and sex2k4k6k8k19101950199020252020-2025BoysGirls

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

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

The top names in North Dakota, 2020s

Girls, 2020-2025
#NameBirths
1Evelyn242
2Olivia240
3Amelia226
4Harper208
5Charlotte206
6Emma192
7Hazel185
8Nora182
9Ellie171
10Aurora171
11Ava170
12Ivy167
13Eleanor166
14Sophia157
15Ella149
16Isla141
17Violet139
18Scarlett135
19Willow134
20Elizabeth129
Boys, 2020-2025
#NameBirths
1Oliver332
2Theodore274
3Henry271
4Liam269
5Hudson261
6Asher240
7Noah238
8Maverick217
9Brooks212
10Jack211
11James209
12William199
13Owen193
14Elijah182
15Cooper182
16Leo179
17Lincoln176
18Benjamin168
19Grayson158
20Jackson149

Births summed over 2020-2025, per sex.

The names most over-represented in North Dakota 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

Boys

Ratios: observed over predicted births, 2020-2025.

More about names in North Dakota

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

Back to North Dakota: 2025 and every year since 1910