Baby names of 2025

Olivia and Liam topped the lists in 2025, out of 3,315,343 births recorded across 28,638 different names. That is 0.8% fewer than the 2024 files hold. About 3.3 million of them are alive today.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Olivia	13,544
2	Charlotte	13,400
3	Emma	12,754
4	Amelia	12,699
5	Sophia	12,561
6	Mia	11,078
7	Isabella	10,666
8	Evelyn	9,123
9	Sofia	8,252
10	Eliana	8,191
11	Ava	7,732
12	Eleanor	7,649
13	Violet	7,546
14	Ailany	7,136
15	Aurora	7,065
16	Harper	6,792
17	Elizabeth	6,760
18	Lily	6,673
19	Camila	6,591
20	Nora	6,380
21	Hazel	6,318
22	Penelope	6,225
23	Chloe	6,203
24	Lucy	6,176
24	Ellie	6,176

All 200 girls’ names of 2025 (17,297 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Liam	20,818
2	Noah	20,358
3	Oliver	14,939
4	Theodore	13,355
5	Henry	12,020
6	James	11,945
7	Elijah	11,111
8	Mateo	11,045
9	William	10,545
10	Lucas	10,219
11	Benjamin	9,762
12	Levi	9,642
13	Elias	8,837
14	Luca	8,759
15	Jack	8,748
16	Sebastian	8,605
17	Hudson	8,583
18	Samuel	8,334
19	Leo	8,173
20	Ezra	8,126
21	Michael	8,094
22	Daniel	8,085
23	John	8,027
24	Ethan	7,852
25	Julian	7,603

All 200 boys’ names of 2025 (13,930 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 2024:

Klarity #2,178 → #788 +1,390
Rynlee #1,966 → #755 +1,211
Ailanny #1,895 → #932 +963
Naylani #1,823 → #895 +928
Madisson #1,180 → #319 +861
Liora #1,630 → #898 +732
Merritt #1,406 → #703 +703
Jaslyn #1,657 → #995 +662

Merritt 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 2024:

Kasai #1,735 → #639 +1,096
Akari #1,631 → #542 +1,089
Eziah #1,397 → #610 +787
Jasai #1,211 → #439 +772
Neithan #1,371 → #723 +648
Kael #1,472 → #903 +569
Landry #1,383 → #996 +387
Haziel #1,176 → #795 +381

First recorded in 2025, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 2025:

Elanith 81
Simea 71
Kyomie 50
Kaelis 45
Naelith 44
Mirleth 36
Airalani 30
Jasleidy 30
Zaelinne 25
Eraya 23

First recorded in 2025, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 2025:

Akyris 74
Kyssac 45
Ezaia 36
Rudvik 33
Ishvik 31
Zohran 30
Jasail 28
Melijah 24
Azien 22
Gurnawab 21

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.