Last year, the Commonwealth of Virginia welcomed roughly 94,443 babies.
What were the most popular names among these babies? Charlotte and Liam, according to the Virginia Department of Health’s Office of Vital Records.
Here are Virginia’s top 15 girl names and top 15 boy names of 2024:
Girl names
- Charlotte
- Olivia
- Emma
- Sophia
- Amelia
- Isabella
- Mia
- Ava
- Eleanor
- Evelyn
- Harper
- Elizabeth
- Sofia
- Abigail
- Aurora
Boy names
- Liam
- Noah
- James
- Oliver
- William
- Henry
- Theodore
- Lucas
- Elijah
- John
- Levi
- Ethan
- Dylan
- Benjamin
- Michael
The state also revealed the top names within each of its four largest ethnic groups: White, Black, Hispanic and Asian. (According to the most recent CDC data, 53.1% of Virginia’s babies were born to non-Hispanic White mothers, 19.0% to Black mothers, 17.5% to Hispanic mothers, and 7.4% to Asian mothers.)
These were the top 5 girl names and 5 boy names among Virginia’s White babies:
| Girl names, White | Boy names, White |
| 1. Charlotte 2. Olivia 3. Eleanor 4. Amelia 5. Emma | 1. James 2. William 3. Oliver 4. Henry 5. Theodore |
These were the top 5 girl names and 5 boy names among Virginia’s Black babies:
| Girl names, Black | Boy names, Black |
| 1. Nova 2. Naomi 3. Ava 4. Brielle 5. Zuri | 1. Noah 2. Amir 3. Josiah 4. Elijah 5. Ezra |
These were the top 5 girl names and 5 boy names among Virginia’s Hispanic babies:
| Girl names, Hispanic | Boy names, Hispanic |
| 1. Mia 2. Isabella 3. Sofia 4. Genesis 5. Camila | 1. Liam 2. Dylan 3. Matteo 4. Noah 5. Thiago |
And these were the top 5 girl names and 5 boy names among Virginia’s Asian babies:
| Girl names, Asian | Boy names, Asian |
| 1. Sophia 2. Emma 3. Olivia 4. Chloe 5. Eliana | 1. Noah 2. Muhammad 3. Henry 4. Lucas 5. Ethan |
Finally, here’s a link to Virginia’s 2023 rankings, if you’d like to compare last year to the year before.
Sources:
- Virginia Department of Health and Office of Vital Records Release Top Baby Names for 2024, Other Interesting Virginia Birth Data
- Births: Final Data for 2023 [PDF], National Vital Statistics Reports, vol. 74, no. 1, 18 Mar. 2025.
Image: Adapted from Flag of Virginia (public domain)
Don’t love the lists of names broken out by ethnic groups (what ever happened to mixed people, Hispanic people can be Black, Asian, or white, etc)…but the data is slightly interesting. Matteo with two Ts ranking third for Hispanic families must be a typo though.
Virginia is on track to elect the first female governor in state history this year as women got the nomination from both major parties. It will be interesting to see if either Abigail or Winsome see a bump in usage in Virginia in the next couple of years.
@alex – You’re right, “Matteo” has to be a typo. Thanks for noticing that.
@Ellyn – How interesting! Yes, we’ll have to keep and eye on those two names…