Baby names of 2015

Emma and Noah topped the lists in 2015, out of 3,701,841 births recorded across 30,665 different names. That is 0.1% fewer than the 2014 files hold. About 3.7 million of them are alive today.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Emma	20,487
2	Olivia	19,729
3	Sophia	17,454
4	Ava	16,416
5	Isabella	15,667
6	Mia	14,943
7	Abigail	12,422
8	Emily	11,808
9	Charlotte	11,415
10	Harper	10,311
11	Madison	10,107
12	Amelia	9,878
13	Elizabeth	9,771
14	Sofia	9,702
15	Evelyn	9,377
16	Avery	9,356
17	Chloe	7,950
18	Ella	7,918
19	Grace	7,680
20	Victoria	7,630
21	Aubrey	7,403
22	Scarlett	7,143
23	Zoey	6,977
24	Addison	6,735
25	Lily	6,683

All 200 girls’ names of 2015 (19,130 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Noah	19,680
2	Liam	18,410
3	Mason	16,675
4	Jacob	16,005
5	William	15,950
6	Ethan	15,103
7	James	14,865
8	Alexander	14,584
9	Michael	14,504
10	Benjamin	13,732
11	Elijah	13,710
12	Daniel	13,543
13	Aiden	13,506
14	Logan	12,939
15	Matthew	12,785
16	Lucas	12,331
17	Jackson	12,299
18	David	11,838
19	Oliver	11,670
20	Jayden	11,583
21	Joseph	11,531
22	Gabriel	10,913
23	Samuel	10,905
24	Carter	10,814
25	Anthony	10,664

All 200 boys’ names of 2015 (14,059 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 2014:

Alaia #2,648 → #664 +1,984
Meilani #2,781 → #946 +1,835
Aitana #2,648 → #915 +1,733
Aislinn #2,351 → #964 +1,387
Taya #2,049 → #977 +1,072
Adaline #1,387 → #365 +1,022
Briar #1,436 → #835 +601
Zelda #1,156 → #648 +508

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 2014:

Riaan #2,277 → #929 +1,348
Huxley #1,355 → #958 +397
Wilder #1,313 → #958 +355
Jaziel #1,218 → #934 +284
Canaan #1,074 → #806 +268
Kaison #973 → #733 +240
Brixton #1,188 → #983 +205
Ridge #1,137 → #934 +203

First recorded in 2015, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 2015:

Kehlani 50
Dayelin 34
Abrish 29
Hazelgrace 22
Alahia 22
Nadyalee 17
Hoorain 15
Aitanna 14
Aithana 14
Brexley 14

First recorded in 2015, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 2015:

Gotham 48
Jersen 21
Meshilem 17
Jacquees 15
Oberyn 14
Oxley 12
Nihan 12
Jidenna 11
Aniv 11
Jhonael 10

Nihan is here because the boys’ 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.

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.