Born in 2024 · Gen Alpha
Baby names of 2024
The Social Security name files, which cover every name given to at least 5 babies, list 3,343,078 babies born in 2024: 1,620,190 girls and 1,722,888 boys. Olivia and Liam were the most popular names, and 7.6% of all babies got a top-10 name, down from 8.5% in 2014. The name most tied to 2024 is Wrenley: among girls, it was 211× as common that year as in the decades before it.
Quick facts
- Generation
- Gen Alpha
- Born 2013–2025
- Babies on record
- 3,343,078
- 1,620,190 girls · 1,722,888 boys
- Different names
- 17,726
- for girls, plus 14,294 for boys (5+ babies each)
- Top-10 names
- 7.6%
- of babies got one · girls 7.1%, boys 8.0%
Top 10 names of 2024
- 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 2024, 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 2024
These names were far more common in 2024 than in the decades before it: the multiplier compares each name's share of 2024 babies with its average share 6–25 years earlier.
| Name | Sex | Rank | Vs. nearby |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wrenley | Girl | #148 | 211× |
| Ailany | Girl | #101 | 109× |
| Scottie | Girl | #202 | 90× |
| Oaklynn | Girl | #156 | 36× |
| Aziel | Boy | #254 | 36× |
| Saint | Boy | #282 | 32× |
| Eithan | Boy | #226 | 30× |
| Kehlani | Girl | #150 | 22× |
| Alaia | Girl | #112 | 22× |
| Kairo | Boy | #238 | 20× |
Names that peaked in 2024
Each of these reached its highest share of US babies in 2024, the high point in records going back to 1880. Rank is for 2024.
| Name | Sex | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Liam | Boy | #1 |
| Oliver | Boy | #3 |
| Ezra | Boy | #13 |
| Ellie | Girl | #21 |
| Ivy | Girl | #36 |
| Delilah | Girl | #50 |
| Myles | Boy | #99 |
| Ayla | Girl | #69 |
| Matteo | Boy | #138 |
| Dawson | Boy | #139 |
New to the top 1,000 in 2024
Names that made the national top 1,000 for the first time in 2024 (records go back to 1880).
Girls
- Aylani541 babies
- Wrenleigh321 babies
- Keziah312 babies
- Kailany297 babies
- Elowen296 babies
- Zyla295 babies
- Cattleya293 babies
- Anaiah289 babies
Boys
- Colsen442 babies
- Jettson301 babies
- Kolter297 babies
- Ozias283 babies
- Bryer278 babies
- Azaiah272 babies
- Zaylen271 babies
- Shimon255 babies
Where are they now?
Every top-100 name from 2024 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