What is the most popular baby name in Ohio?

On a heavy SSA book, Ohio's cumulative #1 boy is Robert (279,412 births) and #1 girl is Mary (201,890 births) since 1910.

How have baby names changed in Ohio over the decades?

Ohio 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 Oliver/Charlotte (2020s).

How many babies are named in Ohio?

Our data covers 6,616,741 name registrations in Ohio for the top 50 boys and top 50 girls names (HEAVY volume stamp · #6 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 Ohio

The boys' and girls' names most often given in Ohio, 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: 6,616,741
Births recorded: 1910–2025
Years covered

Ohio's all-time #1 names are Robert for boys and Mary for girls, based on 6,616,741 SSA birth registrations since 1910.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Ohio has recorded 6,616,741 births across its top 50 boy and top 50 girl names since 1910. Robert leads all boys with 279,412 births, while Mary tops the girls with 201,890. This profile covers decade-by-decade leaders and the full top-50 rankings for both sexes.

Robert #1 boy name
Mary #1 girl name
6,616,741 births recorded

Where Ohio sits by recorded name volume

Ohio: 15,480,878 SSA name registrations (HEAVY · rank 6/51). Inventory signal only, orthogonal to the top-50 lists below.

Ohio vs all states by SSA name registrations

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

15,480,878 6th of 51 higher than 45 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

Ohio naming snapshot

According to SSA state files through 2025, Mary is #1 of 201,890 cumulative SSA births in Ohio ≠ Charlotte #1 of 1,698 2025 girl names at all-time rank #51; Robert is #1 of 279,412 cumulative SSA births in Ohio ≠ Oliver #1 of 1,470 2025 boy names at all-time rank #51.

Charlotte
2025 girls #1, all-time #51: Mary
all-time girls #1, 2025 #51: Oliver
2025 boys #1, all-time #51: Robert
all-time boys #1, 2025 #51

Both sexes in Ohio 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 Ohio

Ohio sits in the heaviest third of SSA name-state registration totals (15,480,878 · HEAVY · #6/51). Cumulative top-50 leaders are Robert (279,412 boy births) and Mary (201,890 girl births) across 6,616,741 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 4,195,105 vs 2,421,636 for girls.

In Ohio, 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 Ohio 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 Oliver 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

551
Amelia

482
Sophia

464
Evelyn

420
Olivia

392
Eleanor

376
Emma

362
Lainey

334
Violet

329
Nora

301

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

Oliver

653
Theodore

611
Noah

551
Henry

543
Liam

530
Hudson

455
William

431
James

403
Elijah

393
Jack

389

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

Mary

201,890
Patricia

86,294
Linda

79,389
Barbara

79,225
Jennifer

75,085
Elizabeth

71,100
Susan

63,009
Karen

60,539
Betty

60,182
Margaret

59,084

What this shows Mary leads Ohio girls with 201,890 recorded births.

Robert

279,412
James

263,196
John

254,372
Michael

230,193
William

206,405
David

205,131
Richard

156,777
Thomas

132,958
Charles

127,472
Joseph

122,769

What this shows Robert leads Ohio boys with 279,412 recorded births.

Decade-by-Decade Leaders

The #1 boy and girl name in Ohio 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	18,570	Mary	28,506
1920s	Robert	41,981	Mary	40,531
1930s	Robert	34,943	Mary	29,554
1940s	James	43,801	Mary	30,920
1950s	James	49,362	Mary	34,149
1960s	Michael	45,718	Lisa	28,928
1970s	Michael	39,600	Jennifer	32,374
1980s	Michael	31,999	Jessica	22,495
1990s	Michael	20,220	Ashley	13,779
2000s	Jacob	13,083	Madison	9,684
2010s	Liam	6,772	Emma	7,256
2020s	Oliver	3,764	Charlotte	3,240

Boy Top 50 Boy Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Robert	279,412
2	James	263,196
3	John	254,372
4	Michael	230,193
5	William	206,405
6	David	205,131
7	Richard	156,777
8	Thomas	132,958
9	Charles	127,472
10	Joseph	122,769
11	Donald	95,634
12	Daniel	91,942
13	Christopher	90,710
14	Mark	85,799
15	Matthew	83,229
16	Paul	81,792
17	Timothy	72,334
18	Ronald	70,372
19	Kenneth	69,041
20	Brian	67,755
21	Jeffrey	67,354
22	Anthony	66,164
23	Andrew	66,095
24	Steven	65,417
25	George	62,105
26	Edward	59,923
27	Joshua	57,390
28	Gary	56,891
29	Kevin	55,365
30	Jason	53,259
31	Scott	48,751
32	Nicholas	47,134
33	Ryan	46,413
34	Jacob	46,247
35	Larry	46,135
36	Eric	45,560
37	Gregory	45,494
38	Jack	43,671
39	Stephen	42,801
40	Raymond	39,483
41	Frank	39,108
42	Douglas	37,798
43	Benjamin	36,565
44	Dennis	35,706
45	Brandon	35,299
46	Justin	33,373
47	Carl	32,731
48	Adam	32,193
49	Samuel	31,852
50	Patrick	31,535

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Mary	201,890
2	Patricia	86,294
3	Linda	79,389
4	Barbara	79,225
5	Jennifer	75,085
6	Elizabeth	71,100
7	Susan	63,009
8	Karen	60,539
9	Betty	60,182
10	Margaret	59,084
11	Nancy	57,308
12	Lisa	54,494
13	Carol	53,097
14	Dorothy	52,207
15	Ruth	51,447
16	Helen	51,109
17	Sarah	49,700
18	Deborah	47,431
19	Sandra	47,098
20	Kimberly	46,750
21	Donna	46,362
22	Jessica	45,370
23	Michelle	44,182
24	Amy	43,420
25	Rebecca	41,800
26	Sharon	41,164
27	Kathleen	40,561
28	Amanda	40,088
29	Melissa	38,923
30	Emily	38,923
31	Laura	38,184
32	Angela	37,852
33	Pamela	37,537
34	Ashley	36,905
35	Janet	36,519
36	Cynthia	35,733
37	Anna	35,707
38	Shirley	34,018
39	Virginia	33,947
40	Stephanie	33,120
41	Christine	30,642
42	Heather	30,621
43	Julie	30,099
44	Judith	29,787
45	Cheryl	29,459
46	Kelly	29,328
47	Diane	29,082
48	Debra	28,990
49	Brenda	28,621
50	Emma	28,254

Read with Ohio

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

HEAVY TREND-LED

Illinois · MEGA

16,484,702 SSA registrations (near-scale with Ohio; ABS Δ 1,003,824). Leader lane may differ from Ohio's TREND-LED.

Pennsylvania · MEGA

17,935,365 SSA registrations (near-scale with Ohio; ABS Δ 2,454,487). Leader lane may differ from Ohio's TREND-LED.

Michigan · HEAVY

12,648,459 SSA registrations (near-scale with Ohio; ABS Δ 2,832,419). Leader lane may differ from Ohio's TREND-LED.

Florida · HEAVY

11,447,493 SSA registrations (1.4× smaller than Ohio; ABS Δ 4,033,385). Leader lane may differ from Ohio's TREND-LED.

Why names rise and fall

Ohio 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.