Baby names of 2014

Emma and Noah topped the lists in 2014, out of 3,707,226 births recorded across 30,811 different names. That is 1.7% more than the 2013 files hold. About 3.7 million of them are alive today.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Emma	20,970
2	Olivia	19,840
3	Sophia	18,644
4	Isabella	17,136
5	Ava	15,727
6	Mia	13,534
7	Emily	12,670
8	Abigail	12,114
9	Madison	10,333
10	Charlotte	10,123
11	Harper	9,619
12	Sofia	9,612
13	Elizabeth	9,600
14	Avery	9,578
15	Amelia	8,805
16	Evelyn	8,753
17	Ella	8,570
18	Chloe	8,562
19	Victoria	8,012
20	Grace	7,660
21	Aubrey	7,635
22	Zoey	7,440
23	Natalie	7,115
24	Addison	7,010
25	Lillian	6,924

All 200 girls’ names of 2014 (19,232 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Noah	19,344
2	Liam	18,488
3	Mason	17,225
4	Jacob	16,923
5	William	16,851
6	Ethan	15,749
7	Michael	15,505
8	Alexander	15,449
9	James	14,464
10	Daniel	13,961
11	Elijah	13,886
12	Benjamin	13,830
13	Logan	13,669
14	Aiden	13,438
15	Jayden	12,995
16	Matthew	12,944
17	David	12,259
18	Jackson	12,242
19	Lucas	12,175
20	Joseph	12,155
21	Anthony	11,613
22	Andrew	11,189
23	Samuel	11,029
24	Gabriel	10,961
25	Joshua	10,929

All 200 boys’ names of 2014 (14,081 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 2013:

Aranza #4,243 → #611 +3,632
Montserrat #1,148 → #572 +576
Monserrat #1,165 → #592 +573
Maisie #1,116 → #653 +463
Ariadne #1,220 → #801 +419
Zendaya #1,301 → #886 +415
Karter #1,385 → #972 +413
Thea #1,133 → #768 +365

Karter 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 2013:

Bode #1,427 → #782 +645
Axl #1,459 → #835 +624
Gannon #841 → #414 +427
Bodie #1,305 → #979 +326
Royal #886 → #570 +316
Coen #1,180 → #898 +282
Anakin #1,238 → #959 +279
Killian #767 → #511 +256

First recorded in 2014, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 2014:

Dalary 218
Yazleemar 28
Sunjai 23
Tauriel 21
Hannaley 21
Naiovy 17
Rynlee 14
Tessanne 13
Everli 13
Arliz 13

First recorded in 2014, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 2014:

Llewyn 38
Keylor 34
Sanav 15
Feynman 15
Rudransh 14
Jadaveon 14
Haigen 13
Cavani 13
Teller 12
Kharson 12

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.