These baby names are popular in one state and one state only: Data
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Comments: by Addy Bink - 08/22/26 1:00 PM ET Comments: Link copied by Addy Bink - 08/22/26 1:00 PM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING (NEXSTAR) – Odds are high that, if you’ve had a child in the last seven years, their name is Olivia or Liam. And if it isn’t, there’s a good chance they have a friend or classmate with either name.
Olivia and Liam remained the most popular baby names for girls and boys, respectively, in 2025, marking the seventh consecutive year that the combo has remained at the top of the Social Security Administration’s list.
The nation’s most popular baby names have hardly changed in recent years . Since 2020, the same three names have ranked among the top five for girls – Oliva, Charlotte, and Emma – and boys – Liam, Noah, and Oliver.
At least one of those names ranked as the most popular in all but three states. Hawaii’s most popular baby names in 2025 were Elijah and Isla. James and Amelia topped their respective charts in Mississippi, and in Wyoming, it was Theodore and Aurora that came out on top.
For what it’s worth, even all of those have ranked among the most popular in the nation since 2020 – the lowest-ranked overall is Isla, coming in at No. 44 once.
There are some names, however, that ranked as the most popular in some states despite not cracking into the nation’s top 100 at all since 2020.
An analysis by Nexstar found that, between 2020 and 2025 (the most recent data available from the Social Security Administration), Declan ranked among the top 100 boy names in 38 states at least once. If you look at the most popular names in the country overall, the highest the name has ever ranked over the same period is No. 102.
Among girls, Parker was among the hottest names in 36 states at least once since 2020. The name peaked at No. 106 across all girl names in the U.S. last year.
But there are names popular in one state and one state only. Some have never even cracked into the top 1,000 names in the U.S.
Between 2020 and 2025, Hawaii had the greatest number of trending names unique to its state. That includes 22 names that have never ranked among the top in the nation.
In total, 23 states and the District of Columbia had at least one girls’ name that was popular nowhere else. Among boy names, 21 states and DC saw at least one unique option.
Some may be on the verge of becoming popular elsewhere. Milan, which recently spiked in popularity in Florida, has ranked among the top 300 names in the U.S. since 2023. Milani, popular only in Delaware, first broke into the United States’ top 1,000 girls’ names in 2014 and has been trending upward since.
Saint, a name that has only trended in the District of Columbia as of late, ranked at No. 267 in the U.S. last year, a huge jump since breaking into the top 1,000 in 2018.
Lottie, one of Wyoming’s most popular names, returned to the nation’s top names in 2022 – a list it hadn’t been on since 1959. Last year, it was the 528th most common name among newborn girls.
It’s too soon to say whether Saint, Lottie, or any of the names in the above table will rank among the nation’s most popular anytime soon.
There were more than 3 million babies born in 2025, though, so there’s a decent chance any of these names could appear on newly printed Social Security cards this year.
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