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Baby names of 2023

Olivia and Liam topped the lists in 2023, out of 3,315,158 births recorded across 29,079 different names. That is 2.1% fewer than the 2022 files hold. About 3.3 million of them are alive today.

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Girls

#NameBirths
1Olivia15,329
2Emma13,590
3Charlotte12,638
4Amelia12,365
5Sophia11,999
6Mia11,404
7Isabella10,871
8Ava9,737
9Evelyn9,121
10Luna7,853
11Harper7,799
12Sofia7,665
13Camila7,581
14Eleanor6,765
15Elizabeth6,616
16Violet6,370
17Scarlett6,318
18Hazel6,193
19Emily6,177
20Lily6,176
21Gianna6,146
22Aurora6,081
23Penelope6,068
24Nora6,027
25Aria6,024

All 200 girls’ names of 2023 (17,615 recorded)

Boys

#NameBirths
1Liam20,904
2Noah19,116
3Oliver14,792
4James11,739
5Elijah11,523
6Mateo11,293
7Theodore11,093
8Henry10,996
9Lucas10,890
10William10,673
11Benjamin10,224
12Levi9,399
13Sebastian8,892
14Jack8,715
15Ezra8,488
16Michael8,430
17Daniel8,402
18Leo8,160
19Samuel8,038
20Owen8,015
21Hudson7,957
22Alexander7,918
23Asher7,897
24Ethan7,810
24Luca7,810

All 200 boys’ names of 2023 (14,215 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 2022:

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 2022:

First recorded in 2023, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 2023:

First recorded in 2023, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 2023:

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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.