Baby names of 2011
Sophia and Jacob topped the lists in 2011, out of 3,658,318 births recorded across 31,492 different names. That is 1.0% fewer than the 2010 files hold. About 3.6 million of them are alive today.
Girls
| # | Name | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sophia | 21,863 |
| 2 | Isabella | 19,931 |
| 3 | Emma | 18,825 |
| 4 | Olivia | 17,335 |
| 5 | Ava | 15,518 |
| 6 | Emily | 14,277 |
| 7 | Abigail | 13,266 |
| 8 | Madison | 12,406 |
| 9 | Mia | 11,543 |
| 10 | Chloe | 11,007 |
| 11 | Elizabeth | 10,109 |
| 12 | Ella | 9,597 |
| 13 | Addison | 9,312 |
| 14 | Natalie | 8,646 |
| 15 | Lily | 8,192 |
| 16 | Grace | 7,642 |
| 17 | Samantha | 7,400 |
| 18 | Avery | 7,346 |
| 19 | Sofia | 7,331 |
| 20 | Aubrey | 7,188 |
| 21 | Brooklyn | 7,178 |
| 22 | Lillian | 6,934 |
| 23 | Victoria | 6,896 |
| 24 | Evelyn | 6,709 |
| 25 | Hannah | 6,584 |
All 200 girls’ names of 2011 (19,590 recorded)
Boys
| # | Name | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jacob | 20,403 |
| 2 | Mason | 19,530 |
| 3 | William | 17,362 |
| 4 | Jayden | 17,019 |
| 5 | Noah | 16,883 |
| 6 | Michael | 16,823 |
| 7 | Ethan | 16,702 |
| 8 | Alexander | 15,717 |
| 9 | Aiden | 15,520 |
| 10 | Daniel | 15,307 |
| 11 | Anthony | 14,290 |
| 12 | Matthew | 14,184 |
| 13 | Elijah | 14,001 |
| 14 | Joshua | 13,797 |
| 15 | Liam | 13,450 |
| 16 | Andrew | 13,297 |
| 17 | James | 13,275 |
| 18 | David | 13,258 |
| 19 | Benjamin | 13,082 |
| 20 | Christopher | 13,027 |
| 21 | Logan | 12,999 |
| 22 | Joseph | 12,995 |
| 23 | Jackson | 12,408 |
| 24 | Gabriel | 12,367 |
| 25 | Ryan | 11,503 |
All 200 boys’ names of 2011 (14,360 recorded)
Biggest climbers, girls
Names that gained the most ground on 2010:
Biggest climbers, boys
Names that gained the most ground on 2010:
First recorded in 2011, girls
Names the SSA had never published before 2011:
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Names the SSA had never published before 2011:
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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.