What is the most popular baby name in New York?

On a heavy SSA book, New York's cumulative #1 boy is John (499,164 births) and #1 girl is Mary (277,582 births) since 1910.

How have baby names changed in New York over the decades?

New York 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/Olivia (2020s).

How many babies are named in New York?

Our data covers 11,022,406 name registrations in New York for the top 50 boys and top 50 girls names (MEGA volume stamp · #2 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 New York

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

Compiled byNameAlmanac, Independent data publisher

John
#1 boy name: Mary
#1 girl name: 11,022,406
Births recorded: 1910–2025
Years covered

New York's all-time #1 names are John for boys and Mary for girls, based on 11,022,406 SSA birth registrations since 1910.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, New York has recorded 11,022,406 births across its top 50 boy and top 50 girl names since 1910. John leads all boys with 499,164 births, while Mary tops the girls with 277,582. This profile covers decade-by-decade leaders and the full top-50 rankings for both sexes.

John #1 boy name
Mary #1 girl name
11,022,406 births recorded

Where New York sits by recorded name volume

New York: 25,832,525 SSA name registrations (MEGA · rank 2/51). Inventory signal only, orthogonal to the top-50 lists below.

New York vs all states by SSA name registrations

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

25,832,525 2nd of 51 higher than 49 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

New York naming snapshot

According to SSA state files through 2025, Mary is #1 of 277,582 cumulative SSA births in New York ≠ Emma #1 of 2,424 2025 girl names at all-time rank #51; John is #1 of 499,164 cumulative SSA births in New York ≠ Noah #1 of 2,046 2025 boy names at all-time rank #51.

Emma
2025 girls #1, all-time #51: Mary
all-time girls #1, 2025 #51: Noah
2025 boys #1, all-time #51: John
all-time boys #1, 2025 #24

Both sexes in New York 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 New York

New York sits in the heaviest third of SSA name-state registration totals (25,832,525 · MEGA · #2/51). Cumulative top-50 leaders are John (499,164 boy births) and Mary (277,582 girl births) across 11,022,406 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 7,085,866 vs 3,936,540 for girls.

In New York, 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 New York 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 Olivia 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.

Emma

774
Olivia

740
Mia

738
Sophia

721
Charlotte

664
Isabella

629
Amelia

622
Leah

550
Sofia

545
Zoe

478

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

Noah

1,381
Liam

1,368
Theodore

738
Lucas

705
Oliver

703
Luca

680
Joseph

667
James

658
Jacob

631
Ethan

630

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

Mary

277,582
Patricia

163,594
Barbara

147,292
Elizabeth

142,808
Susan

122,541
Margaret

116,752
Linda

114,109
Jennifer

112,121
Nancy

93,790
Helen

93,572

What this shows Mary leads New York girls with 277,582 recorded births.

John

499,164
Michael

441,269
Robert

441,116
James

348,452
Joseph

348,324
William

325,455
David

284,489
Richard

264,703
Thomas

242,659
Anthony

195,094

What this shows John leads New York boys with 499,164 recorded births.

Decade-by-Decade Leaders

The #1 boy and girl name in New York 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	41,027	Mary	41,590
1920s	John	61,807	Mary	50,777
1930s	Robert	59,426	Mary	39,803
1940s	Robert	80,452	Barbara	45,347
1950s	Robert	86,586	Mary	50,116
1960s	Michael	86,250	Lisa	44,626
1970s	Michael	62,252	Jennifer	44,349
1980s	Michael	58,999	Jennifer	32,177
1990s	Michael	43,321	Ashley	20,883
2000s	Michael	22,519	Emily	14,144
2010s	Liam	12,500	Sophia	12,082
2020s	Liam	8,535	Olivia	5,273

Boy Top 50 Boy Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	John	499,164
2	Michael	441,269
3	Robert	441,116
4	James	348,452
5	Joseph	348,324
6	William	325,455
7	David	284,489
8	Richard	264,703
9	Thomas	242,659
10	Anthony	195,094
11	Daniel	179,652
12	Christopher	173,075
13	Charles	163,091
14	Edward	153,045
15	George	135,180
16	Matthew	135,084
17	Paul	133,658
18	Frank	122,882
19	Peter	117,080
20	Steven	116,253
21	Kevin	114,546
22	Andrew	109,648
23	Mark	106,094
24	Donald	105,217
25	Brian	101,362
26	Kenneth	98,981
27	Nicholas	96,091
28	Stephen	89,588
29	Ronald	84,752
30	Jeffrey	83,985
31	Jason	76,554
32	Timothy	75,956
33	Raymond	74,992
34	Eric	73,771
35	Jonathan	72,559
36	Vincent	68,504
37	Joshua	67,735
38	Patrick	65,490
39	Ryan	64,687
40	Gary	62,829
41	Alexander	61,056
42	Scott	60,428
43	Arthur	60,412
44	Louis	59,888
45	Henry	57,594
46	Justin	57,395
47	Gregory	56,475
48	Lawrence	53,760
49	Samuel	52,939
50	Jacob	52,853

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Mary	277,582
2	Patricia	163,594
3	Barbara	147,292
4	Elizabeth	142,808
5	Susan	122,541
6	Margaret	116,752
7	Linda	114,109
8	Jennifer	112,121
9	Nancy	93,790
10	Helen	93,572
11	Kathleen	91,651
12	Dorothy	89,999
13	Karen	88,448
14	Lisa	87,365
15	Carol	86,223
16	Joan	81,554
17	Catherine	79,230
18	Jessica	75,326
19	Anna	72,696
20	Christine	70,968
21	Michelle	69,560
22	Rose	68,684
23	Donna	68,416
24	Deborah	68,257
25	Ruth	67,535
26	Sarah	67,417
27	Marie	66,977
28	Diane	64,035
29	Nicole	63,593
30	Laura	62,589
31	Sandra	60,335
32	Frances	59,967
33	Ann	59,801
34	Emily	59,781
35	Maria	58,607
36	Stephanie	56,946
37	Melissa	56,743
38	Theresa	56,572
39	Jean	55,821
40	Sharon	51,878
41	Evelyn	51,606
42	Katherine	50,308
43	Ashley	49,318
44	Kimberly	48,829
45	Amanda	48,469
46	Janet	47,963
47	Cynthia	47,559
48	Judith	47,528
49	Anne	47,098
50	Samantha	46,727

Read with New York

Nearest ABS peers for a heavy-registry state (New York · MEGA · TREND-LED).

MEGA TREND-LED

Texas · MEGA

25,553,856 SSA registrations (near-scale with New York; ABS Δ 278,669). Leader lane may differ from New York's TREND-LED.

California · MEGA

33,446,519 SSA registrations (near-scale with New York; ABS Δ 7,613,994). Leader lane may differ from New York's TREND-LED.

Pennsylvania · MEGA

17,935,365 SSA registrations (1.4× smaller than New York; ABS Δ 7,897,160). Leader lane may differ from New York's TREND-LED.

Illinois · MEGA

16,484,702 SSA registrations (1.6× smaller than New York; ABS Δ 9,347,823). Leader lane may differ from New York's TREND-LED.

Ohio (volume-lane contrast)

Near New York on SSA registration volume yet stamps HEAVY vs MEGA.

Why names rise and fall

New York stamps MEGA · 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.