Baby Names by State and Year

Browse up to 100 leading baby names by U.S. state and year, compare previous-year movement, or look up one exact spelling in published SSA state birth records, 2015–2025.

01 · Choose your filters

Set your course.

Choose a state or Washington, DC, a recorded-sex field, and a birth year from 2015 through 2025. Leave the name blank for up to 100 leading published spellings, with previous-year comparison. Enter one exact spelling for its count and position.

First name to look up (optional)Leave blank to browse up to 100 published spellings for your state, year, and recorded-sex field.U.S. state or District of ColumbiaBirth yearRecorded sex field in SSA dataHow many leading names?An entered exact name is looked up in the full published state file regardless of this setting.

Inputs are processed by our generation service. They are not added to a public name bank.

02 · Explore

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Practical guide

Make this tool useful.

Browse the leading names

A blank name field shows the 10, 25, 50, or 100 leading published spellings in the selected state, year, and recorded-sex field. Enter a name to investigate one spelling beyond the leading hundred.

Make a geographic comparison

A name can be frequent nationally but less common in a particular state. Keep the year, state, spelling, and SSA recorded-sex field visible when interpreting a result.

Read “position” and year-to-year change

We sort the published state entries for the selected field and year by count and spelling. Position and its movement from the prior year are our calculations, not official SSA ranks. A missing prior-year row is displayed as unavailable, not zero.

Keep the suppression rule visible

SSA omits small state cells to protect privacy. A missing row does not prove zero births in that state. These are births associated with a state in that year, not counts of current residents or a prediction of today’s usage.

Questions about this tool

Why does a nationally common name have no state result?

A state-level spelling and field may be below the source’s publication threshold, or it may differ from the spelling you entered. Absence is not a zero count.

Can I compare two states by raw count?

Only with care. States have different numbers of births, so a higher raw count does not by itself mean a name had a larger share of births.

Read our data sources and selection rules before using a result as evidence of popularity.