Born in 2022 · Gen Alpha
Baby names of 2022
The Social Security name files, which cover every name given to at least 5 babies, list 3,386,139 babies born in 2022: 1,640,131 girls and 1,746,008 boys. Olivia and Liam were the most popular names, and 7.6% of all babies got a top-10 name, down from 8.9% in 2012. The name most tied to 2022 is Wrenley: among girls, it was 391× as common that year as in the decades before it.
Quick facts
- Generation
- Gen Alpha
- Born 2013–2025
- Babies on record
- 3,386,139
- 1,640,131 girls · 1,746,008 boys
- Different names
- 17,760
- for girls, plus 14,333 for boys (5+ babies each)
- Top-10 names
- 7.6%
- of babies got one · girls 7.4%, boys 7.7%
Top 10 names of 2022
- Olivia has been the #1 name for girls every year since 2019.
- Liam has been the #1 name for boys every year since 2017.
How many babies got a top-10 name?
In 2022, 7.6% 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 2022
These names were far more common in 2022 than in the decades before it: the multiplier compares each name's share of 2022 babies with its average share 6–25 years earlier.
| Name | Sex | Rank | Vs. nearby |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wrenley | Girl | #284 | 391× |
| Oaklynn | Girl | #160 | 160× |
| Kehlani | Girl | #153 | 108× |
| Kairo | Boy | #250 | 43× |
| Aziel | Boy | #279 | 42× |
| Alaia | Girl | #139 | 32× |
| Everleigh | Girl | #100 | 26× |
| Atlas | Boy | #130 | 24× |
| Palmer | Girl | #295 | 21× |
| Nova | Girl | #32 | 16× |
Names that peaked in 2022
Each of these reached its highest share of US babies in 2022, the high point in records going back to 1880. Rank is for 2022.
| Name | Sex | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Levi | Boy | #12 |
| Luna | Girl | #10 |
| Asher | Boy | #20 |
| Ezekiel | Boy | #48 |
| Nova | Girl | #32 |
| Kai | Boy | #59 |
| Leonardo | Boy | #75 |
| River | Boy | #105 |
| Milo | Boy | #120 |
| Raelynn | Girl | #99 |
New to the top 1,000 in 2022
Names that made the national top 1,000 for the first time in 2022 (records go back to 1880).
Girls
- Wrenlee414 babies
- Arlet390 babies
- Jream369 babies
- Marigold340 babies
- Sol335 babies
- Elowyn317 babies
- Amiri316 babies
- Araya310 babies
Boys
- Kayce488 babies
- Zamir295 babies
- Khaza293 babies
- Dutton292 babies
- Sevyn289 babies
- Crue277 babies
- Kolson267 babies
- Waylen263 babies
Where are they now?
Every top-100 name from 2022 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