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Popular U.S. Baby Names in 2025: Official SSA Top 10

October 26, 2026 7 min read

The Social Security Administration (SSA) publishes annual U.S. baby-name rankings. Its official list for 2025 names Liam and Olivia as the top names in its boy and girl columns. Below are the top 10 entries shown by the SSA. This is a country- and year-specific snapshot, not a universal list of what is popular everywhere.

Coverage note: the SSA says its national data covers U.S. births in the 50 states and District of Columbia. It tabulates Social Security card applications with known year of birth, sex, and state of birth, and given names of at least two characters. The SSA background page says the data are a 100% sample of its records as of March 2026; this describes the records used, not a population survey.

SSA top 10 U.S. names for 2025

Boy names

  1. Liam
  2. Noah
  3. Oliver
  4. Theodore
  5. Henry
  6. James
  7. Elijah
  8. Mateo
  9. William
  10. Lucas

Girl names

  1. Olivia
  2. Charlotte
  3. Emma
  4. Amelia
  5. Sophia
  6. Mia
  7. Isabella
  8. Evelyn
  9. Sofia
  10. Eliana

The list above follows the SSA’s published ordering. It is not a ranking generated from EveryNameMeaning’s existing popularity fields. Where a listed name does not yet have a matching profile in our directory, it is shown without a profile link.

What the U.S. ranking does—and does not—tell you

  • It is specific to a country and year. These are 2025 U.S. rankings, not rankings for the U.K., Canada, Australia, Ireland, or later years.
  • It is based on SSA application records. Names may be omitted when the SSA cannot establish the qualifying birth details or when privacy suppression applies.
  • Spelling variants remain separate. The SSA says different spellings of similar names are not combined. Hyphens and spaces in first names are removed in its tabulations.
  • It is not a meaning or suitability score. Rank does not explain a name's origin, pronunciation, cultural context, or whether it is right for a particular family.

For the SSA's complete methodology and data qualifications, read its background information. You can also browse our boy names, girl names, and unisex names by meaning and origin.

How Google Trends can complement official rankings

The SSA list counts names in a defined administrative dataset; Google Trends measures relative search interest. Trends normalizes data by time and location and scales results from 0 to 100. That index is not an absolute number of searches, and a low-volume term may appear as zero. Therefore, Trends can help compare relative interest across a selected location and time range, but it should not be presented as a baby-name ranking or search-volume report.

Read Google's FAQ about Trends data before interpreting comparisons. Use the United States and a clearly stated time range when comparing U.S. search interest, and keep that result distinct from the SSA's 2025 birth-name ranking.

More about choosing a name

Popularity is only one consideration. Explore names by meaning, browse by origin, or read our guide to evaluating name rankings for a broader checklist.