Baby names of 2019

Olivia and Liam topped the lists in 2019, out of 3,472,582 births recorded across 29,529 different names. That is 1.3% fewer than the 2018 files hold. About 3.4 million of them are alive today.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Olivia	18,577
2	Emma	17,226
3	Ava	14,549
4	Sophia	13,821
5	Isabella	13,407
6	Charlotte	13,239
7	Amelia	12,944
8	Mia	12,508
9	Harper	10,497
10	Evelyn	10,443
11	Abigail	9,196
12	Emily	8,259
13	Ella	8,131
14	Elizabeth	7,923
15	Camila	7,846
16	Luna	7,800
17	Sofia	7,402
18	Avery	7,350
19	Mila	7,343
20	Aria	7,120
21	Scarlett	7,086
22	Penelope	6,734
23	Layla	6,523
24	Chloe	6,414
25	Victoria	6,380

All 200 girls’ names of 2019 (18,024 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Liam	20,631
2	Noah	19,178
3	Oliver	13,967
4	William	13,658
5	Elijah	13,436
6	James	13,198
7	Benjamin	13,044
8	Lucas	12,483
9	Mason	11,484
10	Alexander	11,327
11	Ethan	11,311
12	Jacob	10,797
13	Henry	10,768
14	Michael	10,619
15	Daniel	10,592
16	Logan	10,571
17	Jackson	10,176
18	Sebastian	9,884
19	Jack	9,404
20	Aiden	9,403
21	Owen	9,347
22	Samuel	9,322
23	Matthew	9,277
24	Joseph	9,179
25	Levi	9,066

All 200 boys’ names of 2019 (14,133 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 2018:

Amoura #2,059 → #978 +1,081
Theodora #1,406 → #853 +553
Navy #1,269 → #813 +456
Emani #1,371 → #956 +415
Yaritza #1,216 → #813 +403
Alaia #583 → #184 +399
Alaiya #1,145 → #786 +359
Oakleigh #1,162 → #854 +308

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 2018:

Sekani #6,703 → #873 +5,830
Ermias #5,770 → #540 +5,230
Amias #1,478 → #824 +654
Kyro #1,343 → #720 +623
Aziel #1,465 → #953 +512
Ambrose #1,465 → #961 +504
Eliel #1,135 → #662 +473
Seven #1,408 → #1,000 +408

First recorded in 2019, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 2019:

Adeya 24
Kayslin 20
Malaynah 18
Chevel 17
Kulture 17
Ahveya 15
Kaavia 15
Sakani 15
Akyli 14
Jhazelle 14

Sakani is here because the girls’ 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.

First recorded in 2019, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 2019:

Armias 55
Izhaan 50
Jsan 33
Jaiari 29
Ripp 26
Sakani 21
Jardani 19
Kamiri 17
Iskender 17
Siar 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.