dankname US baby names, counted every year since 1880

Liam

US babies given the name, 1880–2025, from SSA records

In 2025, 20,818 boys were named Liam: #1 among boys' names that year. The most boys in one year was 22,252, in 2024.

Babies named Liam each year

GirlsBoys
Liam: babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, girls and boys. Peak 2024 with 22,288.06.3k12.5k18.8k25k18801900192019401960198020002020

Both lines are drawn because the SSA files list Liam for girls and for boys; they share one scale, so the smaller line can sit close to the floor. A break in a line is a year under the SSA's 5-birth floor, not a drop to zero.

Babies in 2025Girls 28
Boys 20,818Rank: boys #1, girls #4,829
Peak year, both sexes202422,288 babies that year (girls + boys)
Peak year by sexGirls 2017: 38
Boys 2024: 22,252The single year with the most babies of that sex
Highest rank everGirls #3,960 in 2017
Boys #1 in 2017Earliest year it reached that rank
All-time recorded births359,085Every listed year, 1880–2025: boys 358,536, girls 549
Years listedGirls 26 of 146
Boys 74 of 146Years with 5 or more babies of that sex

Every year: babies and rank

YearGirlsRankBoysRank
202528#4,82920,818#1
202436#4,08722,252#1
202330#4,61720,904#1
202226#5,10620,579#1
202130#4,56720,424#1
202033#4,23119,865#1
201930#4,61320,631#1
201824#5,39919,977#1
201738#3,96018,874#1
201619#6,57318,277#2
201521#6,15318,410#2
201432#4,51218,488#2
201322#5,93618,153#3
201223#5,81316,824#6
201113#8,94213,450#15
201022#6,08510,933#30
200921#6,4548,567#49
200811#10,4905,982#75
200711#10,5395,141#89
200611#10,3224,514#98
20059#11,4474,152#104
200415#7,6593,827#112
200317#6,7753,565#114
2002under 5 or none—3,382#113
2001under 5 or none—3,029#131
200012#8,3322,781#140
19998#10,9572,709#141
1998under 5 or none—2,209#155
1997under 5 or none—2,112#162
1996under 5 or none—1,748#184
19957#11,2221,206#239
1994under 5 or none—668#360
1993under 5 or none—400#515
1992under 5 or none—305#590
1991under 5 or none—270#621
1990under 5 or none—277#605
1989under 5 or none—224#669
1988under 5 or none—171#719
1987under 5 or none—147#755
1986under 5 or none—152#734
1985under 5 or none—150#722
1984under 5 or none—145#724
1983under 5 or none—145#717
1982under 5 or none—156#697
1981under 5 or none—123#787
1980under 5 or none—114#826
1979under 5 or none—118#804
1978under 5 or none—112#809
1977under 5 or none—97#864
1976under 5 or none—70#996
1975under 5 or none—82#910
1974under 5 or none—72#966
1973under 5 or none—61#1,043
1972under 5 or none—63#1,019
1971under 5 or none—60#1,054
1970under 5 or none—49#1,188
1969under 5 or none—47#1,143
1968under 5 or none—54#1,012
1967under 5 or none—60#939
1966under 5 or none—47#1,083
1965under 5 or none—36#1,286
1964under 5 or none—38#1,271
1963under 5 or none—43#1,188
1962under 5 or none—24#1,653
1961under 5 or none—27#1,564
1960under 5 or none—24#1,674
1959under 5 or none—17#2,013
1958under 5 or none—24#1,623
1957under 5 or none—28#1,503
1956under 5 or none—18#1,917
1955under 5 or none—12#2,383
1954under 5 or none—8#3,081
1953under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1952under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1951under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1950under 5 or none—10#2,518
1949under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1948under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1947under 5 or none—5#4,046
1946under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1945under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1944under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1943under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1942under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1941under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1940under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1939under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1938under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1937under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1936under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1935under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1934under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1933under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1932under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1931under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1930under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1929under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1928under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1927under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1926under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1925under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1924under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1923under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1922under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1921under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1920under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1919under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1918under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1917under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1916under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1915under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1914under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1913under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1912under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1911under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1910under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1909under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1908under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1907under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1906under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
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1904under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1903under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1902under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1901under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1900under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1899under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1898under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1897under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1896under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1895under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1894under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1893under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1892under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1891under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1890under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1889under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1888under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1887under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1886under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1885under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1884under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1883under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1882under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1881under 5 or none—under 5 or none—
1880under 5 or none—under 5 or none—

Rank among all names of that sex in that year, by the SSA's rule. “under 5 or none” is a year the SSA file does not list: fewer than 5 babies of that sex, possibly none.

Rank in each decade

DecadeGirlsBoys
2020–2025 (so far)#4,532#1
2010s#5,468#2
2000s#9,724#96
1990s#19,994#247
1980sunder 5 or none every year#731
1970sunder 5 or none every year#931
1960sunder 5 or none every year#1,233
1950sunder 5 or none every year#2,385
1940sunder 5 or none every year#6,258
1930sunder 5 or none every yearunder 5 or none every year
1920sunder 5 or none every yearunder 5 or none every year
1910sunder 5 or none every yearunder 5 or none every year
1900sunder 5 or none every yearunder 5 or none every year
1890sunder 5 or none every yearunder 5 or none every year
1880sunder 5 or none every yearunder 5 or none every year

Rank among all names of that sex by births summed over the decade.

Years under the floor

Girls: under 5 or none in 1880–1994, 1996–1998, 2001–2002.

Boys: under 5 or none in 1880–1946, 1948–1949, 1951–1953.

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About this page

Why this name has its own page

These pages are the 5 girls' and 5 boys' names given to the most babies in 2025, the newest year in the SSA file this site is built from. The build picks them from that year's file each time it runs — most births first, ties in alphabetical order, the SSA's own ranking rule — so a new SSA year can change the list. Any other name is on the front page lookup.

Where every number comes from

US Social Security Administration, "Beyond the Top 1000 Names" national data (names.zip): one text file per year of birth, 1880 to 2025, each line a name, a sex and a number of babies. The SSA address is www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/names.zip; ssa.gov refuses requests from this site's build server, so the file was taken from the Internet Archive's copy of that address, captured 2026-09-28 (14:33 UTC) and fetched 2026-09-30: web.archive.org/web/20260928143357id_/www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/names.zip. SHA-256 cd78e975ed7bb358e018dd62fbe14ced89295e9581c49172ca4eedcb011b3724.

The SSA lists a name for a sex in a year only when at least 5 babies got it, so every total here adds up the listed years only and is a floor on the true number. The file covers people with a Social Security number, so early decades count people who applied for one later in life. Spellings are separate names: this page counts “Liam” exactly as spelled.