Baby names of 2022

Olivia and Liam topped the lists in 2022, out of 3,386,139 births recorded across 29,322 different names. That is 0.1% fewer than the 2021 files hold. About 3.4 million of them are alive today.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Olivia	16,670
2	Emma	14,512
3	Charlotte	12,952
4	Amelia	12,415
5	Sophia	12,382
6	Isabella	11,761
7	Ava	11,107
8	Mia	11,077
9	Evelyn	9,332
10	Luna	8,977
11	Harper	8,227
12	Camila	8,001
13	Sofia	7,285
14	Scarlett	7,258
15	Elizabeth	7,020
16	Eleanor	6,927
17	Emily	6,498
18	Mila	6,487
19	Chloe	6,482
20	Violet	6,477
21	Penelope	6,430
22	Gianna	6,419
23	Aria	6,406
24	Abigail	6,306
25	Ella	6,291

All 200 girls’ names of 2022 (17,760 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Liam	20,579
2	Noah	18,758
3	Oliver	15,176
4	James	12,119
5	Elijah	12,094
6	William	11,356
7	Henry	11,272
8	Lucas	10,973
9	Benjamin	10,912
10	Theodore	10,824
11	Mateo	10,397
12	Levi	9,869
13	Sebastian	9,403
14	Daniel	9,121
15	Jack	8,936
16	Michael	8,895
17	Alexander	8,757
18	Owen	8,589
19	Samuel	8,427
20	Asher	8,418
21	Ethan	8,312
22	Leo	8,293
23	Jackson	8,120
24	Mason	8,051
25	Ezra	8,023

All 200 boys’ names of 2022 (14,333 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 2021:

Wrenlee #1,410 → #712 +698
Neriah #1,680 → #994 +686
Arlet #1,229 → #742 +487
Georgina #1,304 → #880 +424
Amiri #1,293 → #880 +413
Arleth #962 → #638 +324
Amayah #1,024 → #704 +320
Winona #1,293 → #975 +318

Amiri 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.

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 2021:

Dutton #1,823 → #835 +988
Kayce #1,076 → #587 +489
Chosen #1,307 → #895 +412
Khaza #1,230 → #834 +396
Eithan #849 → #501 +348
Waylen #1,218 → #894 +324
Asaiah #1,317 → #997 +320
Karim #1,089 → #771 +318

First recorded in 2022, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 2022:

Jazaiyah 46
Yahritza 45
Rhaenyra 31
Brisley 29
Navany 28
Jhersi 27
Aidanna 22
Soleen 21
Jeizy 20
Yasani 19

First recorded in 2022, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 2022:

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.