The new rankings have arrived!
Earlier today, the SSA released the 2023 U.S. baby name data. The top two names in the nation are again Olivia and Liam.
Here are the new top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names:
Girl names
- Olivia, 15,270 baby girls
- Emma, 13,527
- Charlotte, 12,596
- Amelia, 12,311
- Sophia, 11,944
- Mia, 11,359
- Isabella, 10,808
- Ava, 9,682
- Evelyn, 9,082
- Luna, 7,811
Boy names
- Liam, 20,802 baby boys
- Noah, 18,995
- Oliver, 14,741
- James, 11,670
- Elijah, 11,452
- Mateo, 11,229
- Theodore, 11,041
- Henry, 10,941
- Lucas, 10,842
- William, 10,598
The girls’ top 10 consists of the same ten names, nearly in the same order — only Mia, Isabella, and Ava have switched places.
In the boys’ top 10, Mateo (which jumped from 11th place in 2022 to 6th place last year!) replaced Benjamin.
Here are the rest of the names in the top 50 (for both genders):
| Rank | Girl names | Boy names |
| 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 | Harper Sofia Camila Eleanor Elizabeth Violet Scarlett Emily Hazel Lily Gianna Aurora Penelope Aria Nora Chloe Ellie Mila Avery Layla Abigail Ella Isla Eliana Nova Madison Zoe Ivy Grace Lucy Willow Emilia Riley Naomi Victoria Stella Elena Hannah Valentina Maya | Benjamin Levi Sebastian Jack Ezra Michael Daniel Leo Owen Samuel Hudson Alexander Asher Luca Ethan John David Jackson Joseph Mason Luke Matthew Julian Dylan Elias Jacob Maverick Gabriel Logan Aiden Thomas Isaac Miles Grayson Santiago Anthony Wyatt Carter Jayden Ezekiel |
Here’s more from the SSA’s press release:
It’s clear that social media stars had a major influence on new parents in 2023. The fastest rising girl’s name, Kaeli, went viral in 2023, rising a whopping 1,692 spots. Parents must have really smashed the ‘like’ button for YouTube and TikTok star Kaeli McEwen (also known as Kaeli Mae), who routinely promotes a clean, tidy, and neutral-aesthetic lifestyle. On the boy’s side, trending in third place as the boy’s fastest riser, is Eiden – perhaps it was TikTok creator Wyatt Eiden’s 1.6 billion views and over 3 million followers that prompted this name’s meteoric rise.
Powerful names also proved very attractive to parents in 2023. Emryn made her debut in the Top 1000 baby names after moving up 1,287 spots – Ryn translates to “ruler,” so it is no shock to see Emryn becoming a leader amongst the girls. Meanwhile Chozen, the second fastest rising boy’s name, fought up to number 813 in 2023. The character Chozen becomes a hero in the latest season of the hit Netflix show, Cobra Kai – wax on, wax off!
More posts on the new names coming soon!
Sources: Popular Baby Names – SSA, Olivia and Liam Reign Supreme – SSA
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Huh..so confused on the press release about “powerful names”. I can’t find anything corroborating “Ryn” meaning ‘ruler’ in any language (Rí means king in Irish but that’s not quite a match) but even if it did, I can’t imagine that’s the reason people are using Emryn. It seems like such a weird example to use there.
My guess is that the person who wrote the press release couldn’t explain the rise of Emryn, so they tried adding other information to make up for it.
They may have gotten “ruler” from this user-submitted definition of Emryn at Behind the Name (which is typically a very reliable site).