Popular baby names in Boston (Massachusetts), 2023

Last year, the City of Boston welcomed a total of 20,645 babies.

What were the most popular names among these babies? Olivia and Liam.

Here are Boston’s top 20 girl names and top 20 boy names of 2023:

Girl names

1. Olivia
2. Emma
3. Sophia
4. Charlotte
5. Sofia
6. Isabella
7. Grace
8. Chloe
9. Amelia
10. Maya
11. Luna
12. Gianna
13. Mia
14. Nora
15. Ava
16. Natalie
17. Ella
18. Emilia
19. Maeve
20. Eleanor

Boy names

1. Liam
2. Noah
3. Henry
4. Leo
5. Theodore
6. Jack
7. Julian
8. James
9. Thomas
10. Benjamin
11. William
12. Luca
13. John
14. Ethan
15. Logan
16. Aiden
17. Charles
18. Samuel
19. Joseph
20. Oliver

Thomas caught my eye — it’s a top-10 boy name in Boston, but (in 2022) it only managed to rank 22nd state-wide and 45th country-wide.

Massachusetts’ top baby names of 2023 won’t be revealed until May, when the new SSA data comes out, but the state’s #1 names in 2022 were Olivia and Noah. (Noah won by a wide margin, in fact. It was given to 142 more baby boys than second-place Liam.)

Sources: Most Popular Baby Names in Boston, SSA

Image: Adapted from Flag of Massachusetts (public domain)