Baby names of 2004

Emily and Jacob topped the lists in 2004, out of 3,821,229 births recorded across 29,516 different names. That is 0.5% more than the 2003 files hold. About 3.8 million of them are alive today.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Emily	25,042
2	Emma	21,625
3	Madison	20,628
4	Olivia	16,108
5	Hannah	15,614
6	Abigail	15,436
7	Isabella	15,021
8	Ashley	14,377
9	Samantha	13,786
10	Elizabeth	13,577
11	Alexis	13,477
12	Sarah	12,758
13	Grace	12,536
14	Alyssa	12,109
15	Sophia	10,919
16	Lauren	9,983
17	Brianna	9,804
18	Kayla	9,773
19	Natalie	9,689
20	Anna	9,531
21	Jessica	9,470
22	Taylor	9,303
23	Chloe	8,729
24	Hailey	8,685
25	Ava	8,645

All 200 girls’ names of 2004 (18,835 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Jacob	27,911
2	Michael	25,470
3	Joshua	24,214
4	Matthew	22,882
5	Ethan	22,210
6	Andrew	21,717
7	Daniel	21,018
8	William	20,237
9	Joseph	20,147
10	Christopher	19,636
11	Anthony	19,613
12	Ryan	19,496
13	Nicholas	18,519
14	David	18,412
15	Alexander	17,925
16	Tyler	17,450
17	John	16,470
18	James	16,469
19	Dylan	14,852
20	Nathan	14,634
21	Jonathan	14,375
22	Brandon	14,135
23	Samuel	14,131
24	Christian	13,926
25	Benjamin	13,832

All 200 boys’ names of 2004 (13,228 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 2003:

Rubi #1,561 → #613 +948
Kaydence #984 → #377 +607
Marin #1,383 → #835 +548
Diya #1,416 → #873 +543
Kadence #869 → #390 +479
Kimora #1,235 → #805 +430
Saniyah #1,291 → #890 +401
Charlize #1,018 → #625 +393

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 2003:

Koda #2,238 → #930 +1,308
Tayshaun #2,153 → #963 +1,190
Kanye #1,492 → #486 +1,006
Kyan #1,497 → #587 +910
Jaidyn #1,630 → #816 +814
Cohen #1,451 → #652 +799
Madison #1,497 → #857 +640
Carmelo #1,348 → #915 +433

Jaidyn and Madison are here because the boys’ file records them: the SSA publishes every name given to five or more babies of one sex, and a rank is a position within that list. It is not a claim about whose name it is.

First recorded in 2004, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 2004:

Eshal 38
Hanny 20
Hiromy 20
Kaidynce 19
Jazira 18
Naturelle 17
Jadence 15
Ellagrace 14
Kieayla 13
Samadhi 13

First recorded in 2004, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 2004:

Jkwon 100
Brasen 22
Amanti 19
Kentravion 19
Aariz 18
Karmello 17
Xzorion 17
Garv 17
Kraven 14
Jaydien 14

Try it on yourself

Source: US Social Security Administration national baby-name files. Names given to fewer than five babies in a year are not published, so the totals here run below the true number of births. How far below is not the same in every year: the files hold 201,484 births for 1880 and 3,315,343 for 2025, so a change from one year to the next in the early decades is partly a change in what the record covers.