Baby names of 2003

Emily and Jacob topped the lists in 2003, out of 3,802,494 births recorded across 28,899 different names. That is 1.7% more than the 2002 files hold. About 3.8 million of them are alive today.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Emily	25,693
2	Emma	22,719
3	Madison	20,201
4	Hannah	17,638
5	Olivia	16,154
6	Abigail	15,932
7	Alexis	14,867
8	Ashley	14,519
9	Elizabeth	14,123
10	Samantha	13,870
11	Sarah	13,785
12	Isabella	13,781
13	Grace	12,781
14	Alyssa	12,750
15	Lauren	11,051
16	Kayla	10,957
17	Brianna	10,584
18	Jessica	10,454
19	Taylor	10,314
20	Sophia	9,687
21	Anna	9,464
22	Victoria	9,251
23	Natalie	9,151
24	Chloe	9,082
25	Sydney	8,911

All 200 girls’ names of 2003 (18,439 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Jacob	29,658
2	Michael	27,129
3	Joshua	25,106
4	Matthew	24,011
5	Andrew	22,162
6	Joseph	21,394
7	Ethan	21,362
8	Daniel	21,072
9	Christopher	20,753
10	Anthony	20,149
11	William	20,000
12	Nicholas	19,696
13	Ryan	19,578
14	David	18,641
15	Tyler	18,185
16	Alexander	17,714
17	John	17,249
18	James	16,896
19	Dylan	15,703
20	Zachary	15,541
21	Brandon	15,245
22	Jonathan	14,994
23	Samuel	14,691
24	Benjamin	14,086
25	Christian	13,908

All 200 boys’ names of 2003 (12,761 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 2002:

Laci #2,126 → #437 +1,689
Karyme #2,467 → #939 +1,528
Roselyn #2,467 → #967 +1,500
Kaydence #2,310 → #984 +1,326
Sherlyn #2,081 → #911 +1,170
Norah #1,853 → #815 +1,038
Arly #1,934 → #949 +985
Kadence #1,821 → #869 +952

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 2002:

Maddox #1,372 → #582 +790
Jahir #1,571 → #809 +762
Yair #1,236 → #717 +519
Jamarion #1,094 → #644 +450
Aydan #1,154 → #741 +413
Damarion #1,168 → #809 +359
Yahir #604 → #258 +346
Xander #542 → #234 +308

First recorded in 2003, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 2003:

Trenyce 88
Ramiyah 44
Talayeh 42
Naydelyn 26
Aaralyn 24
Saribel 22
Daveigh 22
Niobe 21
Dayrin 18
Irulan 17

First recorded in 2003, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 2003:

Pharrell 67
Jayvyn 27
Khamani 21
Myzel 20
Ryken 17
Johnavon 17
Faaris 16
Aadi 14
Aydyn 14
Maddex 13

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.