Baby names of 2009

Isabella and Jacob topped the lists in 2009, out of 3,820,687 births recorded across 32,278 different names. That is 2.8% fewer than the 2008 files hold. About 3.8 million of them are alive today.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Isabella	22,321
2	Emma	17,910
3	Olivia	17,444
4	Sophia	16,951
5	Ava	15,877
6	Emily	15,366
7	Madison	15,257
8	Abigail	14,401
9	Chloe	11,922
10	Mia	11,438
11	Elizabeth	11,057
12	Addison	10,669
13	Alexis	9,946
14	Samantha	9,669
15	Ella	9,659
16	Natalie	9,421
17	Grace	8,322
18	Lily	8,101
19	Alyssa	7,980
20	Ashley	7,815
21	Sarah	7,794
22	Taylor	7,590
23	Hannah	7,584
24	Brianna	7,357
25	Hailey	7,325

All 200 girls’ names of 2009 (20,199 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Jacob	21,204
2	Ethan	19,858
3	Michael	18,964
4	Alexander	18,254
5	William	17,937
6	Joshua	17,671
7	Daniel	17,564
8	Jayden	17,316
9	Noah	17,262
10	Christopher	16,368
11	Anthony	16,327
12	Aiden	16,030
13	Matthew	16,010
14	David	15,457
15	Joseph	14,952
16	Andrew	14,877
17	Logan	14,467
18	James	14,223
19	Benjamin	13,123
20	Ryan	13,122
21	Elijah	12,846
22	Gabriel	12,834
23	Christian	12,657
24	Samuel	12,181
25	Nathan	12,135

All 200 boys’ names of 2009 (14,540 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 2008:

Taraji #5,013 → #876 +4,137
Bristol #2,773 → #666 +2,107
Analia #1,167 → #331 +836
Harlow #1,677 → #904 +773
Maliah #1,405 → #795 +610
Rosalie #1,431 → #831 +600
Vivienne #1,123 → #531 +592
Demi #1,405 → #887 +518

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 2008:

Knox #1,655 → #704 +951
Kellan #1,133 → #623 +510
Jaxen #1,329 → #867 +462
Bentley #936 → #514 +422
Archer #1,037 → #683 +354
Jaxton #1,169 → #854 +315
Cullen #782 → #485 +297
Hayes #1,223 → #953 +270

First recorded in 2009, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 2009:

First recorded in 2009, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 2009:

Jeremih 88
Kiptyn 82
Jencarlos 46
Jayko 22
Kypton 18
Zyien 17
Adhrit 17
Kingstyn 16
Jencarlo 15
Damoney 15

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.