Baby names of 2007

Emily and Jacob topped the lists in 2007, out of 3,998,031 births recorded across 32,440 different names. That is 1.1% more than the 2006 files hold. About 4 million of them are alive today.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Emily	19,367
2	Isabella	19,143
3	Emma	18,390
4	Ava	18,053
5	Madison	17,968
6	Sophia	17,031
7	Olivia	16,589
8	Abigail	15,476
9	Hannah	13,323
10	Elizabeth	13,071
11	Addison	11,949
12	Samantha	11,883
13	Ashley	11,428
14	Alyssa	11,275
15	Mia	10,922
16	Chloe	10,759
17	Natalie	10,443
18	Sarah	10,014
19	Alexis	9,923
20	Grace	9,769
21	Ella	9,554
22	Brianna	8,855
23	Hailey	8,439
24	Taylor	7,965
25	Anna	7,901

All 200 girls’ names of 2007 (20,584 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Jacob	24,310
2	Michael	22,027
3	Ethan	21,041
4	Joshua	20,669
5	Daniel	20,268
6	Christopher	20,030
7	Anthony	19,639
8	William	18,898
9	Matthew	18,756
10	Andrew	18,461
11	Alexander	18,150
12	David	17,573
13	Joseph	17,364
14	Noah	16,605
15	James	15,973
16	Ryan	15,722
17	Logan	15,331
18	Jayden	15,251
19	John	14,447
20	Nicholas	14,362
21	Tyler	14,106
22	Christian	14,063
23	Jonathan	13,809
24	Nathan	13,605
25	Samuel	13,367

All 200 boys’ names of 2007 (14,394 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 2006:

Jaslene #17,168 → #600 +16,568
Marely #6,125 → #746 +5,379
Audrina #3,264 → #708 +2,556
Jordin #3,090 → #584 +2,506
Azul #2,081 → #723 +1,358
Miley #1,212 → #279 +933
Olive #1,788 → #988 +800
Mylie #1,624 → #859 +765

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 2006:

Nery #3,524 → #901 +2,623
Dereon #1,738 → #925 +813
Kingston #926 → #354 +572
Kellan #1,294 → #883 +411
Kelan #1,387 → #977 +410
Jayvion #1,301 → #981 +320
Colt #910 → #593 +317
Slade #1,163 → #855 +308

First recorded in 2007, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 2007:

Leilene 81
Yumalay 37
Aidsa 30
Madelis 30
Yeneisy 27
Britzy 27
Danity 26
Dannielynn 24
Yudany 23
Raengel 22

First recorded in 2007, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 2007:

Yurem 206
Sanjaya 28
Nerik 17
Kolben 15
Dracen 15
Kingsten 14
Jayel 14
Yuren 14
Boedy 13
Topher 13

Jayel is here because the boys’ file records it: 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.

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.