Baby names of 2005

Emily and Jacob topped the lists in 2005, out of 3,845,147 births recorded across 30,174 different names. That is 0.6% more than the 2004 files hold. About 3.8 million of them are alive today.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Emily	23,952
2	Emma	20,362
3	Madison	19,578
4	Abigail	15,756
5	Olivia	15,700
6	Isabella	15,197
7	Hannah	14,854
8	Samantha	13,642
9	Ava	13,606
10	Ashley	13,276
11	Elizabeth	12,743
12	Sophia	12,678
13	Alexis	11,977
14	Grace	11,865
15	Sarah	11,555
16	Alyssa	10,891
17	Mia	10,846
18	Natalie	10,742
19	Chloe	9,598
20	Brianna	9,370
21	Lauren	9,249
22	Anna	9,113
23	Ella	9,072
24	Taylor	8,676
25	Kayla	8,620

All 200 girls’ names of 2005 (19,199 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Jacob	25,851
2	Michael	23,828
3	Joshua	23,261
4	Matthew	21,483
5	Ethan	21,318
6	Andrew	20,742
7	Daniel	20,236
8	Anthony	19,387
9	Joseph	19,241
10	Christopher	19,174
11	William	19,060
12	David	18,144
13	Alexander	18,130
14	Ryan	17,990
15	Nicholas	17,076
16	Tyler	16,989
17	James	16,140
18	John	15,796
19	Jonathan	14,443
20	Nathan	14,365
21	Samuel	14,271
22	Christian	14,210
23	Noah	13,905
24	Dylan	13,782
25	Benjamin	13,586

All 200 boys’ names of 2005 (13,370 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 2004:

Mikalah #7,077 → #806 +6,271
Yuridia #3,689 → #965 +2,724
Naima #3,127 → #891 +2,236
Karol #2,742 → #818 +1,924
Karma #1,972 → #847 +1,125
Danica #1,118 → #611 +507
Arleth #1,314 → #820 +494
Anais #1,404 → #940 +464

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 2004:

Talan #4,264 → #542 +3,722
Carmine #1,934 → #886 +1,048
Leland #1,335 → #608 +727
Amare #1,159 → #631 +528
Braylen #1,359 → #834 +525
Johnpaul #1,251 → #739 +512
Braylon #705 → #360 +345
Aedan #1,191 → #879 +312

First recorded in 2005, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 2005:

Yarisbel 30
Jolett 18
Malaiya 17
Ziza 17
Secora 17
Syriana 16
Camora 16
Rayssa 16
Swara 14
Malay 14

First recorded in 2005, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 2005:

Jayceon 49
Yadier 27
Khriz 19
Matix 17
Ashmit 16
Gurshaan 15
Johnbenedict 14
Daddy 14
Davari 14
Jhace 13

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.