Popular baby names in Iowa, 2022

The most popular baby names in Iowa in 2022 were Olivia for girls (175 babies) and Oliver for boys (196). Oliver ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 25,556 babies born in Iowa in 2022 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Iowa in 2022

Names given at least 15 times in Iowa that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Kollyns: 15 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Briar: 30 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Maren: 29 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Sloan: 18 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Wrenley: 38 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Hattie: 26 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Nellie: 15 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Kinley: 18 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Alivia: 30 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Brinley: 21 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Boys

Kolt: 20 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Brecken: 22 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Huxley: 24 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Briggs: 38 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Tate: 65 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Drake: 19 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Case: 17 babies, 5× the national rate
Riggs: 15 babies, 5× the national rate
Ledger: 17 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Boone: 16 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Iowa, 2022

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 2021	US rank
1	Olivia	175	↑1	1
2	Charlotte	161	↓1	3
3	Ava	131	↑1	7
4	Emma	120	↑1	2
5	Amelia	119	↓2	4
6	Evelyn	115	↑2	9
7	Harper	114	↑2	11
8	Eleanor	103	↑3	16
9	Nora	93	↓2	28
10	Hazel	91	↑2	27
11	Scarlett	89	↑3	14
12	Ellie	85	↑9	33
13	Sophia	83	↓7	5
14	Avery	82	↓1	26
15	Ivy	80	↑15	42
16	Violet	80	↑8	20
17	Isabella	79	↑8	6
18	Grace	73	↑1	35
19	Willow	73	↓9	37
20	Elizabeth	70	↑2	15
21	Aurora	69	↓4	31
22	Ella	68	↑11	25
23	Isla	68	↓3	36
24	Nova	64	↑7	32
25	Penelope	64	new	21
26	Everly	63	↓8	56
27	Hadley	63	↑21	>100
28	Paisley	63	↓13	53
29	Lucy	61	↑12	48
30	Addison	60	↑8	54
31	Mia	59	↓15	8
32	Luna	58	↓4	10
33	Vivian	58	↑17	>100
34	Layla	56	↑11	29
35	Quinn	56	↓3	73
36	Lily	53	↑4	30
37	Stella	53	↓1	40
38	Cora	52	↓15	75
39	Claire	51	↑5	66
40	Ruby	51	↓3	62
41	Kinsley	49	new	61
42	Lydia	49	↓13	93
43	Lillian	48	↓16	50
44	Maeve	48	new	>100
45	Everleigh	47	new	100
46	Abigail	46	↓7	24
47	Mila	46	↓5	18
48	Parker	46	new	>100
49	Delilah	44	new	58
50	Eloise	44	new	86

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 2021	US rank
1	Oliver	196	–	3
2	Liam	180	–	1
3	Theodore	161	↑3	10
4	Henry	154	↓1	7
5	William	126	↑7	6
6	Hudson	123	↑1	27
7	James	123	↑9	4
8	Jack	121	↑2	15
9	Leo	118	↑12	22
10	Owen	115	↓2	18
11	Asher	113	↓6	20
12	Brooks	113	↓1	77
13	Wyatt	108	↑7	38
14	Elijah	105	↓5	5
15	Noah	99	↓11	2
16	Maverick	97	↓1	40
17	Bennett	91	↑13	83
18	Jackson	90	↓1	23
19	Cooper	89	↑17	53
20	Benjamin	86	↓7	9
21	Carter	86	↑4	47
22	Lincoln	83	↓4	54
23	Miles	83	↑21	56
24	Lucas	81	↓10	8
25	Levi	80	↓2	12
26	Walker	80	↑17	78
27	Waylon	80	↑1	66
28	Weston	77	↑10	82
29	Everett	74	↑8	81
30	Ezra	74	↑18	25
31	Calvin	72	new	>100
32	Emmett	72	↑1	>100
33	Grayson	68	↓14	37
34	Samuel	68	↓12	19
35	Beau	67	↓4	90
36	Isaac	66	↓12	41
37	Rhett	65	new	>100
38	Tate	65	new	>100
39	Easton	64	↓12	80
40	Mateo	64	new	11
41	Daniel	63	new	14
42	Luke	63	new	34
43	Mason	63	↓14	24
44	Logan	62	↑1	33
45	Myles	62	new	>100
46	Ryker	61	↓20	>100
47	Wesley	61	new	70
48	Beckett	60	↓16	>100
49	Nolan	60	↓7	65
50	Charles	59	new	50

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