Born in 2014 · Gen Alpha
Baby names of 2014
The Social Security name files, which cover every name given to at least 5 babies, list 3,707,226 babies born in 2014: 1,786,355 girls and 1,920,871 boys. Emma and Noah were the most popular names, and 8.5% of all babies got a top-10 name, down from 10.4% in 2004. The name most tied to 2014 is Jase: among boys, it was 15× as common that year as in the decades around it.
Quick facts
- Generation
- Gen Alpha
- Born 2013–2025
- Babies on record
- 3,707,226
- 1,786,355 girls · 1,920,871 boys
- Different names
- 19,232
- for girls, plus 14,081 for boys (5+ babies each)
- Top-10 names
- 8.5%
- of babies got one · girls 8.5%, boys 8.5%
Top 10 names of 2014
- Emma was the #1 name for girls every year from 2014 to 2018.
- Noah was the #1 name for boys every year from 2013 to 2016.
How many babies got a top-10 name?
In 2014, 8.5% of babies were given one of that year's 10 most popular names. Across all years, that share fell from 29.0% in 1935 to 7.5% in 2025.
Names that sound like 2014
These names were far more common in 2014 than in the decades around it: the multiplier compares each name's share of 2014 babies with its average share 6–25 years before and after.
| Name | Sex | Rank | Vs. nearby |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jase | Boy | #105 | 15× |
| Jayceon | Boy | #200 | 13× |
| Brantley | Boy | #121 | 11× |
| Daleyza | Girl | #227 | 8.1× |
| Bentley | Boy | #89 | 8.1× |
| Iker | Boy | #215 | 8.0× |
| Aubree | Girl | #62 | 7.4× |
| Khloe | Girl | #88 | 6.9× |
| Kinley | Girl | #209 | 6.9× |
| Annabella | Girl | #256 | 6.4× |
Names that peaked in 2014
Each of these reached its highest share of US babies in 2014, the high point in records going back to 1880. Rank is for 2014.
| Name | Sex | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Olivia | Girl | #2 |
| Luke | Boy | #28 |
| Avery | Girl | #14 |
| Ariana | Girl | #37 |
| Arianna | Girl | #40 |
| Kayden | Boy | #90 |
| Annabelle | Girl | #57 |
| Maxwell | Boy | #107 |
| Brantley | Boy | #121 |
| Kaiden | Boy | #124 |
New to the top 1,000 in 2014
Names that made the national top 1,000 for the first time in 2014 (records go back to 1880).
Girls
- Montserrat534 babies
- Aranza476 babies
- Maisie437 babies
- Remington413 babies
- Khaleesi369 babies
- Naya362 babies
- Ariadne350 babies
- Hadleigh314 babies
Boys
- Axl270 babies
- Finnley260 babies
- Henrik253 babies
- Chevy237 babies
- Dash224 babies
- Vivaan224 babies
- Anakin220 babies
- Baylor218 babies
Where are they now?
Top-100 names of 2014 that have since dropped out of the top 1,000. Ranks are for 2014 and 2025.
Girls
- Alexa #64 in 2014 , now #1,029 in 2025
Boys
Every top-100 boys' name from 2014 is still in the 2025 top 1,000.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data