Most popular baby boy names (length by length) in the U.S. in 2023

Going length by length (e.g., 2 letters long, 3 letters long, 4 letters long…), what were last year’s most popular baby boy names?

Before we get to the lists, a few quick facts:

• The most common length for boy names in 2023 was 6 letters (used 29.38% of the time), followed by 5 letters (26.33%).
• The length that increased the most in usage for boy names (from 2022 to 2023) was 13 letters.
• The length that decreased the most in usage for boy names (from 2022 to 2023) was 7 letters.

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Top boy names with 2 letters:

1. Bo, 630 baby boys
2. Ty, 331
3. Cy, 75
4. Aj, 64 (tie)
5. Om, 64 (tie)
6. Oz, 40
7. Jj, 37
8. Cj, 35 (tie)
9. Ky, 35 (tie)
10. Tj, 34

Top boy names with 3 letters:

1. Leo, 8,120 baby boys
2. Kai, 4,946
3. Ian, 4,538
4. Eli, 4,081
5. Ace, 2,314
6. Max, 2,197
7. Jax, 1,155
8. Koa, 1,115
9. Ali, 1,065
10. Ari, 964

Top boy names with 4 letters:

1. Liam, 20,802 baby boys
2. Noah, 18,995
3. Levi, 9,347
4. Jack, 8,683
5. Ezra, 8,437
6. Owen, 7,985
7. Luca, 7,770
8. John, 7,750
9. Luke, 7,217
10. Axel, 4,498

Top boy names with 5 letters:

1. James, 11,670 baby boys
2. Mateo, 11,229
3. Henry, 10,941
4. Lucas, 10,842
5. Asher, 7,853
6. Ethan, 7,763
7. David, 7,354
8. Mason, 7,237
9. Dylan, 7,054
10. Elias, 6,980

Top boy names with 6 letters:

1. Oliver, 14,741 baby boys
2. Elijah, 11,452
3. Daniel, 8,356
4. Samuel, 7,973
5. Hudson, 7,935
6. Joseph, 7,237
7. Julian, 7,078
8. Thomas, 6,598
9. Carter, 5,847
10. Jayden, 5,627

Top boy names with 7 letters:

1. William, 10,598 baby boys
2. Michael, 8,383
3. Jackson, 7,284
4. Matthew, 7,190
5. Gabriel, 6,745
6. Grayson, 6,449
7. Anthony, 6,237
8. Ezekiel, 5,569
9. Charles, 5,395
10. Cameron, 5,069

Top boy names with 8 letters:

1. Theodore, 11,041 baby boys
2. Benjamin, 10,172
3. Maverick, 6,962
4. Santiago, 6,328
5. Jonathan, 4,066
6. Leonardo, 4,012
7. Jeremiah, 3,750
8. Nicholas, 3,242
9. Harrison, 3,060
10. Giovanni, 2,911

Top boy names with 9 letters:

1. Sebastian, 8,865 baby boys
2. Alexander, 7,875
3. Christian, 4,125
4. Nathaniel, 2,507
5. Alejandro, 1,825
6. Remington, 1,184
7. Francisco, 1,121
8. Johnathan, 647
9. Frederick, 595
10. Valentino, 575

Top boy names with 10 letters:

1. Alessandro, 555 baby boys
2. Maximilian, 511
3. Montgomery, 210
4. Kristopher, 209
5. Aleksander, 125
6. Cristopher, 123
7. Alexzander, 109
8. Fitzgerald, 63 (tie)
9. Theophilus, 63 (tie)
10. Abdirahman, 50

Top boy names with 11 letters:

1. Christopher, 5,171 baby boys
2. Maximiliano, 1,143
3. Muhammadali, 108
4. Constantine, 104
5. Abdulrahman, 103
6. Maximillian, 63
7. Abdurrahman, 42
8. Miguelangel, 38
9. Bartholomew, 33
10. Johnmichael, 30

(I’m excluding the longer names because they’re quite rare overall.)

Source: SSA