US SSA 2025 data is here!! Here are the biggest trends
Happy (US) name day, namenerds!! Here is a (rather long, but hopefully fun!) analysis I did of the biggest trends of the top 100 names for 2025:
Girls
Top 10: Olivia, Charlotte, Emma, Amelia, Sophia, Mia, Isabella, Evelyn, Sofia, Eliana
Olivia held #1 for the 7th year in a row (since 2019).
Biggest rank jumps:
- Ailany (#101 → #14, +87 spots)
- Sienna (#139 → #94, +45 spots)
- Amara (#121 → #98, +23 spots)
- Eloise (#64 → #49, +15 spots)
- Clara (#78 → #63, +15 spots)
Biggest rank drops:
- Athena (#90 → #109, −19 spots)
- Addison (#68 → #84, −16 spots)
- Natalie (#73 → #89, −16 spots)
- Luna (#13 → #27, −14 spots)
- Maria (#74 → #87, −13 spots)
Biggest growth in babies named:
- Ailany (+174.9%, +4,540 babies)
- Eliana (+27.5%, +1,768 babies)
- Valentina (+20.6%, +916 babies)
- Charlotte (+6.8%, +848 babies)
- Eloise (+23.9%, +821 babies)
Biggest decline in babies named:
- Olivia (−8.0%, −1,174 babies)
- Luna (−14.8%, −1,059 babies)
- Mia (−8.5%, −1,035 babies)
- Camila (−13.4%, −1,017 babies)
- Ava (−10.7%, −930 babies)
New to the top 100: Ailany, Sienna, Amara, Georgia, and Juniper
Fell out of the top 100: Athena, Aaliyah, Anna, Allison, and Hailey
Girl names to watch (just outside the top 100, but climbing fast - % is year-over-year change in babies given the name):
- Scottie — #201 → #126 (+46.9%)
- Elsie — #155 → #123 (+17.6%)
- Emerson — #151 → #122 (+14.0%)
- Hallie — #148 → #120 (+14.0%)
- Evangeline — #174 → #147 (+14.8%)
- Margot — #126 → #102 (+15.8%)
- Valerie — #147 → #127 (+11.9%)
- Juliette — #129 → #110 (+11.3%)
- Catalina — #128 → #111 (+10.8%)
- Genevieve — #165 → #148 (+8.0%)
Boys
Top 10: Liam, Noah, Oliver, Theodore, Henry, James, Elijah, Mateo, William, Lucas
Liam held #1 for the 9th year in a row (since 2017).
Biggest rank jumps:
- Eithan (#227 → #97, +130 spots)
- Atlas (#101 → #75, +26 spots)
- Adriel (#109 → #84, +25 spots)
- Cooper (#50 → #27, +23 spots)
- Bennett (#60 → #40, +20 spots)
Biggest rank drops:
- Christian (#77 → #96, −19 spots)
- Jaxon (#96 → #115, −19 spots)
- Kai (#76 → #93, −17 spots)
- Aiden (#47 → #62, −15 spots)
- Dylan (#28 → #41, −13 spots)
Biggest growth in babies named:
- Eithan (+128.2%, +2,043 babies)
- Cooper (+31.1%, +1,773 babies)
- Theodore (+11.2%, +1,344 babies)
- Elias (+15.5%, +1,184 babies)
- Bennett (+23.0%, +1,173 babies)
Biggest decline in babies named:
- Liam (−6.1%, −1,346 babies)
- Dylan (−16.8%, −1,256 babies)
- Aiden (−19.2%, −1,197 babies)
- Maverick (−10.9%, −721 babies)
- Logan (−11.0%, −691 babies)
New to the top 100: Atlas, Adriel, Arthur, Emiliano, Eithan, and Archer
Fell out of the top 100: Eli, Amir, Jaxon, Parker, Colton, and Adam
Names to watch (just outside the top 100, but climbing fast - % is year-over-year change in babies given the name):
- Elian — #237 → #147 (+63.7%)
- Callum — #159 → #118 (+32.6%)
- Charlie — #176 → #145 (+18.0%)
- Beckett — #166 → #141 (+15.2%)
- Stetson — #155 → #136 (+14.3%)
- Dean — #142 → #125 (+13.0%)
- Malachi — #149 → #134 (+12.0%)
- Sawyer — #132 → #122 (+6.7%)
- Graham — #129 → #120 (+6.4%)
- Zion — #151 → #142 (+5.8%)
check out interactive charts of this data at https://namedaisy.com/blog