Baby names in New Jersey in the 2020s
In New Jersey in the 2020s the most given names were Liam (4,399 boys) and Olivia (2,754 girls), of 455,909 births recorded.
Births under names given to 5 or more babies of one sex in the state that year.
New Jersey, 2020-2025: SSA state baby-name file, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s state data.
The top names in New Jersey, 2020s
Births summed over 2020-2025, per sex.
The names most over-represented in New Jersey 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 New Jersey
- The 2020s across the U.S.The most given names of the decade nationally.
- New Jersey: 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.