Born in 2025 · Gen Alpha
Baby names of 2025
The Social Security name files, which cover every name given to at least 5 babies, list 3,315,343 babies born in 2025: 1,607,267 girls and 1,708,076 boys. Olivia and Liam were the most popular names, and 7.5% of all babies got a top-10 name, down from 8.3% in 2015. The name most tied to 2025 is Ailany: among girls, it was 257× as common that year as in the decades before it.
Quick facts
- Generation
- Gen Alpha
- Born 2013–2025
- Babies on record
- 3,315,343
- 1,607,267 girls · 1,708,076 boys
- Different names
- 17,297
- for girls, plus 13,930 for boys (5+ babies each)
- Top-10 names
- 7.5%
- of babies got one · girls 7.0%, boys 8.0%
Top 10 names of 2025
- 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 2025, 7.5% 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 2025
These names were far more common in 2025 than in the decades before it: the multiplier compares each name's share of 2025 babies with its average share 6–25 years earlier.
| Name | Sex | Rank | Vs. nearby |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ailany | Girl | #14 | 257× |
| Scottie | Girl | #126 | 103× |
| Wrenley | Girl | #159 | 100× |
| Eithan | Boy | #97 | 56× |
| Aylani | Girl | #293 | 46× |
| Aziel | Boy | #186 | 40× |
| Elowyn | Girl | #299 | 32× |
| Saint | Boy | #267 | 25× |
| Callahan | Boy | #227 | 24× |
| Oaklynn | Girl | #153 | 24× |
Names that peaked in 2025
Each of these reached its highest share of US babies in 2025, the high point in records going back to 1880. Rank is for 2025.
| Name | Sex | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Noah | Boy | #2 |
| Charlotte | Girl | #2 |
| Theodore | Boy | #4 |
| Elias | Boy | #13 |
| Luca | Boy | #14 |
| Hudson | Boy | #17 |
| Eliana | Girl | #10 |
| Santiago | Boy | #26 |
| Violet | Girl | #13 |
| Cooper | Boy | #27 |
New to the top 1,000 in 2025
Names that made the national top 1,000 for the first time in 2025 (records go back to 1880).
Girls
- Madisson958 babies
- Kyomi551 babies
- Alara441 babies
- Merritt401 babies
- Rynlee359 babies
- Kiyomi355 babies
- Klarity344 babies
- Romi333 babies
Boys
- Jasai719 babies
- Akari554 babies
- Eziah465 babies
- Kasai437 babies
- Neithan371 babies
- Haziel317 babies
- Brewer310 babies
- Aslan280 babies
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