Baby names of 2016
Emma and Noah topped the lists in 2016, out of 3,669,760 births recorded across 30,483 different names. That is 0.9% fewer than the 2015 files hold. About 3.6 million of them are alive today.
Girls
| # | Name | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emma | 19,550 |
| 2 | Olivia | 19,414 |
| 3 | Ava | 16,354 |
| 4 | Sophia | 16,185 |
| 5 | Isabella | 14,863 |
| 6 | Mia | 14,464 |
| 7 | Charlotte | 13,118 |
| 8 | Abigail | 11,796 |
| 9 | Emily | 11,006 |
| 10 | Amelia | 10,809 |
| 11 | Harper | 10,803 |
| 12 | Evelyn | 10,116 |
| 13 | Elizabeth | 9,607 |
| 14 | Sofia | 9,179 |
| 15 | Madison | 9,057 |
| 16 | Avery | 8,774 |
| 17 | Ella | 7,940 |
| 18 | Scarlett | 7,720 |
| 19 | Grace | 7,617 |
| 20 | Chloe | 7,484 |
| 21 | Victoria | 7,329 |
| 22 | Riley | 7,159 |
| 23 | Aria | 6,949 |
| 24 | Lily | 6,610 |
| 25 | Aubrey | 6,552 |
All 200 girls’ names of 2016 (18,885 recorded)
Boys
| # | Name | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noah | 19,188 |
| 2 | Liam | 18,277 |
| 3 | William | 15,810 |
| 4 | Mason | 15,287 |
| 5 | James | 14,920 |
| 6 | Benjamin | 14,686 |
| 7 | Jacob | 14,559 |
| 8 | Michael | 14,145 |
| 9 | Elijah | 13,982 |
| 10 | Ethan | 13,855 |
| 11 | Alexander | 13,446 |
| 12 | Oliver | 13,066 |
| 13 | Daniel | 12,996 |
| 14 | Lucas | 12,906 |
| 15 | Matthew | 12,665 |
| 16 | Aiden | 12,269 |
| 17 | Jackson | 11,315 |
| 18 | Logan | 11,278 |
| 19 | David | 11,153 |
| 20 | Joseph | 10,969 |
| 21 | Samuel | 10,621 |
| 22 | Henry | 10,390 |
| 23 | Sebastian | 10,309 |
| 24 | Owen | 10,305 |
| 25 | Gabriel | 10,279 |
All 200 boys’ names of 2016 (14,207 recorded)
Biggest climbers, girls
Names that gained the most ground on 2015:
Biggest climbers, boys
Names that gained the most ground on 2015:
First recorded in 2016, girls
Names the SSA had never published before 2016:
First recorded in 2016, boys
Names the SSA had never published before 2016:
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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.