Popular baby names in Australia, 2024

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In 2024, the country of Australia welcomed 292,318 babies: 142,019 girls and 150,299 boys.

What were the most popular names among Australia’s newborns that year?

We don’t know for sure, because Australia doesn’t release baby name rankings that cover the entire country. But we can look at eight sets of regional Australian rankings — representing Australia’s six states and two most populous territories — and then make a guess about the country’s top names overall.

Here are the rankings, ordered by total number of births per region (highest to lowest):

New South Wales

In 2024, New South Wales welcomed 86,978 (29.8%) of Australia’s babies.

Top girl names (NSW, 2024)Top boy names (NSW, 2024)
1. Charlotte, 409
2. Amelia, 395
3. Olivia, 336
4. Mia, 326
5. Isla, 320
6. Chloe, 292
7. Harper, 287
8. Hazel, 283
9. Sophia, 282
10. Evelyn, 277		1. Noah, 556
2. Oliver, 493
3. Theodore, 442
4. Luca, 400
5. Henry, 375
6. Leo, 359
7. Hudson, 349
8. Charlie, 330
9. Lucas, 322
10. Elijah, 314

Victoria

In 2024, Victoria welcomed 82,328 (28.2%) of Australia’s babies.

Top girl names (Victoria, 2024)Top boy names (Victoria, 2024)
1. Isla, 389
2. Charlotte, 382
3. Amelia, 380
4. Mia, 327
5. Hazel, 316
6. Olivia, 309
7. Matilda, 279
8. Grace, 268
9. Ella, 264
10. Lily, 259		1. Oliver, 570
2. Noah, 462
3. Henry, 359
4. Leo, 348 (tie)
5. Theodore, 348 (tie)
6. Luca, 346
7. Charlie, 341
8. Jack, 334
9. Archie, 292
10. Levi, 289

Queensland

In 2024, Queensland welcomed 58,986 (20.2%) of Australia’s babies.

Top girl names (Queensland, 2024)Top boy names (Queensland, 2024)
1. Charlotte, 319
2. Isla, 260
3. Olivia, 259
4. Amelia, 248
5. Harper, 206 (tie)
6. Matilda, 206 (tie)
7. Mia, 201
8. Hazel, 196
9. Willow, 194
10. Grace, 192		1. Oliver, 445
2. Theodore, 344
3. Noah, 341
4. Henry, 328
5. Hudson, 316
6. Luca, 268
7. Leo, 253
8. William, 251
9. Charlie, 235
10. Jack, 233

Western Australia

In 2024, Western Australia welcomed 30,516 (10.4%) of Australia’s babies.

Top girl names (WA, 2024)Top boy names (WA, 2024)
1. Charlotte, 136 (tie)
2. Isla, 136 (tie)
3. Amelia, 135
4. Olivia, 128
5. Harper, 119
6. Mia, 117
7. Violet, 98
8. Ella, 94 (tie)
9. Matilda, 94 (tie)
10. Ava, 88		1. Noah, 195 (tie)
2. Oliver, 195 (tie)
3. Leo, 146
4. Theodore, 144
5. Henry, 123
6. Hudson, 122
7. Jack, 120
8. Luca, 119
9. Charlie, 118
10. Thomas, 114

South Australia

In 2024, South Australia welcomed 18,516 (6.3%) of Australia’s babies.

Top girl names (SA, 2024)Top boy names (SA, 2024)
1. Charlotte, 108
2. Olivia, 89
3. Isla, 86
4. Amelia, 70
5. Mia, 67
6. Lily, 64
7. Hazel, 63
8. Ivy, 62
9. Grace, 61 (tie)
10. Matilda, 61 (tie)		1. Oliver, 131
2. Henry, 125
3. Noah, 105
4. Charlie, 101
5. Theodore, 98
6. Leo, 92
7. Levi, 91
8. William, 80
9. Jack, 78
10. Luca, 75

Australian Capital Territory

In 2024, the ACT (Canberra) welcomed 6,017 (2.1%) of Australia’s babies.

Top girl names (ACT, 2024)Top boy names (ACT, 2024)
1. Amelia
2. Isla
3. Ava (tie)
4. Charlotte (tie)
5. Evelyn
6. Grace
7. Harper (tie)
8. Olivia (tie)
9. Mia
10. Chloe		1. Noah
2. Theodore
3. Henry (2-way tie)
4. Oliver (2-way tie)
5. Thomas (2-way tie)
6. William (2-way tie)
7. Leo
8. Arthur
9. George/Hudson/Muhammad/Oscar (4-way tie)

Tasmania

In 2024, Tasmania welcomed 5,483 (1.9%) of Australia’s babies.

Top girl names (Tasmania, 2024)Top boy names (Tasmania, 2024)
1. Hazel
2. Charlotte
3. Isla
4. Harper
5. Ivy
6. Grace
7. Matilda
8. Willow
9. Elsie
10. Violet		1. Oliver
2. Henry
3. Charlie
4. Archie
5. Thomas
6. Noah
7. George
8. Oscar
9. William
10. Theodore

Northern Territory

In 2024, Northern Territory welcomed 3,484 (1.2%) of Australia’s babies.

[Unfortunately, NT’s 2024 rankings haven’t been released yet. As soon as they are, though, I’ll add them to the post!]

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Australia overall

Using the data above, let’s make a guess about Australia’s top baby names overall.

Here’s what I came up with:

Possible top girl names (Australia, 2024)Possible top boy names (Australia, 2024)
1. Charlotte
2. Amelia
3. Isla		1. Oliver
2. Noah
3. Theodore

What are your thoughts on these? (Which names would you have put at the top?)

P.S. I guessed that Isla and Oliver were the #1 names in the country in 2023…

Sources:

Image: Adapted from Flag of Australia (public domain)
Map: Adapted from Australia location map by NordNordWest under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Popular baby names in New York City, 2024

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Last year, New York City welcomed more than 100,000 babies.

What were the most popular names among these babies? Mia and Noah, according to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Here are NYC’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2024:

Girl names

  1. Mia, 422 baby girls
  2. Emma
  3. Sophia
  4. Leah
  5. Isabella
  6. Zoe
  7. Olivia
  8. Chloe
  9. Sofia
  10. Esther

Boy names

  1. Noah, 722 baby boys
  2. Liam
  3. Ethan
  4. David
  5. Lucas
  6. Jacob
  7. Joseph
  8. Aiden
  9. Dylan (tie)
  10. Muhammad (tie)

One year earlier, in 2023, the top names in New York City were Emma and Liam.

Sources: Mia and Noah Top List of Most Popular Baby Names in New York City – NYC Health, Provisional Birth and Death Data – NYC Health

Image: Adapted from Flag of New York (public domain)

Top baby names in Japan, 2025

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The East Asian island nation of Japan, which welcomes hundreds of thousands of babies every year, doesn’t release official baby name rankings.

But the most popular names of 2025 may have included Sui, Sana, and Ema for girls and Ao, Minato, and Haruto for boys.

How do we know?

Because, every year, two Japanese companies — the Benesse Corporation (which owns pregnancy/childcare brand Tamahiyo) and the Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company — come up with unofficial rankings using their own data.

  • Benesse/Tamahiyo’s rankings account for 166,011 babies born in Japan from January to September, 2025.
  • Meiji Yasuda’s rankings account for 12,505 babies born in Japan from January to September, 2025.

Both companies rank names in two different ways: as they’re written, and as they’re said aloud (because many Japanese names have several possible pronunciations).

So below you’ll find eight sets of rankings. They account for two genders, two sources, and two ways of judging popularity: written vs. readings. (The rankings needed to be turned into images because my blogging software can’t handle Chinese and Japanese characters.)

Girl names

Here are Japan’s top girl names as written, according to both companies:

Top baby names for girls in Japan, 2025

The girl name in the No. 1 spot on both lists is commonly read “Sui” or “Midori.”

(According to Benesse’s data, Sui ranked 95th in 2020, 40th in 2021, 16th in 2022, and 3rd in both 2023 and 2024.)

And here are Japan’s top girl-name readings, according to both companies:

Top baby name readings for girls in Japan, 2025

The top girl-name reading on Benesse’s list is Sana, while the top girl-name reading on Meiji Yasuda’s list is Ema.

Boy names

Here are Japan’s top boy names as written, according to both companies:

Top baby names for boys in Japan, 2025

The top boy name on Benesse’s list is commonly read “Ao,” while the top boy name on Meiji Yasuda’s list is commonly read “Minato” or “So.”

And here are Japan’s top boy-name readings, according to both companies:

Top baby name readings for boys in Japan, 2025

The boy-name reading in the No. 1 spot on both lists is Haruto.

Sources:

Top image: Adapted from Flag of Japan (public domain)

Popular and unique baby names in Sweden, 2024

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Last year, the Scandinavian country of Sweden welcomed 98,451 babies.

What were the most popular names among these babies? Alma and Noah.

Here are Sweden’s top 50 girl names and top 50+ boy names of 2024:

Girl names

  1. Alma, 568 baby girls
  2. Alice, 565
  3. Olivia, 552
  4. Elsa, 550
  5. Vera, 546
  6. Saga, 486
  7. Selma, 484
  8. Astrid, 473
  9. Ella, 472
  10. Signe, 458
  11. Freja, 455
  12. Ellie, 454
  13. Stella, 427
  14. Alba, 408
  15. Maja, 398
  16. Agnes, 373
  17. Alva, 367
  18. Leah, 350
  19. Hedda, 346
  20. Ebba, 340
  21. Mila, 322
  22. Luna, 319
  23. Lilly, 310
  24. Wilma, 303
  25. Iris, 300
  26. Ines, 291
  27. Juni, 290
  28. Alicia, 288
  29. Sigrid, 283
  30. Ellen, 254
  31. Ester, 251
  32. Leia, 248
  33. Nora, 244
  34. Majken, 242
  35. Lykke, 241
  36. Julia, 238
  37. Lily, 237 (tie)
  38. Molly, 237 (tie)
  39. Edith, 227
  40. Hilma, 224
  41. Elvira, 222
  42. Sally, 216
    • It’s so interesting to see Sally rising in Sweden. (It entered Sweden’s top 100 around 2013.) In the U.S., Sally has never made the top 50 — but it did come close in the late 1930s.
  43. Celine, 211
  44. Clara, 205
  45. Nova, 198
  46. Ingrid, 194
  47. Ilse, 190
  48. Livia, 189
  49. Bonnie, 185 (tie)
  50. Esther, 185 (tie)

Boy names

  1. Noah, 692 baby boys
  2. William, 574
  3. Hugo, 567
  4. Liam, 548
  5. Adam, 538 (tie)
  6. August, 538 (tie)
  7. Nils, 527
  8. Leo, 515
  9. Oliver, 514
  10. Otto, 491
  11. Sam, 490
  12. Alfred, 482
  13. Elias, 478
  14. Malte, 463
  15. Leon, 422
  16. Frans, 420
  17. Charlie, 404
  18. Ludvig, 396
  19. Ted, 377
  20. Theo, 376
  21. Valter, 375
  22. Olle, 371
  23. Gabriel, 347
  24. Arvid, 345
  25. Elliot, 343 (tie)
  26. Lucas, 343 (tie)
  27. Tage, 328
  28. Harry, 320
  29. Henry, 303 (tie)
  30. Theodor, 303 (tie)
  31. Björn, 291
  32. Ebbe, 285
  33. Vincent, 284
  34. Walter, 280
  35. Alexander, 277 (tie)
  36. Adrian, 277 (tie)
  37. Benjamin, 272
  38. Oscar, 264 (tie)
  39. Melker, 264 (tie)
  40. Elton, 260
  41. Jack, 259
  42. Noel, 258
  43. Axel, 251
  44. Kian, 244
  45. Viggo, 229
  46. Albin, 225
  47. Ivar, 224
  48. Lukas, 223
  49. Matteo, 218
  50. Julian, 217 (tie)
  51. Levi, 217 (tie)

In the girls’ top 10, Saga replaced Ellie.

In the boys’ top 10, Leo and Otto replaced Elias and Sam.

Four of the fastest-rising names were Celine and Junie (for girls) and Bo and Björn (for boys).

Lower down in the rankings I spotted…

  • Penny (65 girls)
    • Five more were named Pennie.
  • Tindra (23 girls) – means “to twinkle” in Swedish
  • Buster (10 boys)
  • Tintin (6 girls, 4 boys)
  • Texas (8 boys, 1 girl)
    • Three more boys were named Tex, Texan, and Texaz.
  • Grim (7 boys)
  • Tibelia (5 girls)
  • Fenrir (4 boys) – a giant wolf in Norse mythology
  • Figge (4 boys) – a nickname for Fredrik
  • Styrbjörn (3 boys)
  • Lioness (2 girls)
  • Valiant (2 boys)

And here’s a sampling of the thousands of names that were bestowed just once in Sweden last year:

Unique girl namesUnique boy names
Allikin, Borealis, Cindelle, Darshini, Eldfrid, Frigg, Gizi, Hafdís, Issoria, Javeline, Kiwi, Lupin, Majliss, Ninorta, Orchidée, Päivi, Ririka, Siglind, Tanangoo, Unnati, Vyllma, Wanyin, Yangkyi, ZeelineAlfrid, Brighter, Carwill, Dharav, Ejvind, Fafner, Gizmo, Hjälte, Imron, Jojje, Khangarid, Lindorm, Michigan, Nexus, Orchlon, Prodromos, Reijo, Sigsten, Thimmy, Ulve, Vigor, Wheffy, Yazn, Zirrar

Some definitions/explanations for a few of the above:

  • Allikin is the main character of the Swedish children’s book Allikin (1986) by Runo Lindskog.
  • Borealis is a Latin word meaning “northern.”
  • Frigg is a Norse goddess.
    • The word Friday comes from the Old English word frigedæg, meaning “Frigg’s day.”
  • Hafdís is an Icelandic name made up of elements meaning “sea” and “goddess.”
  • Hjälte means “hero” in Swedish.
  • Jojje is a diminutive of Georg, the Swedish form of George.
  • Khangarid is the Mongolian name for Garuda, a mythical bird-like deity in Hinduism and Buddhism.
    • The emblem of Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar, features a Khangarid.
  • Lindorm refers to a mythical snake-like creature in Nordic folklore.
  • Päivi is a diminutive of the Finnish name Päivikki, which is based on the word päivä, meaning “day.”
  • Prodromos is an Ancient Greek word meaning “forerunner.”
  • Unnati is a Sanskrit word meaning “ascending” or “advancement.”

Sources:

Image: Adapted from Flag of Sweden (public domain)