Popular baby names in Louisiana
In 2025, Louisiana's top baby names were Amelia for girls and Noah for boys. Below: this year's top 20, the names Louisiana likes far more than the rest of the country, the number-one names decade by decade, and every year's list back to 1910.
Top 20 names in Louisiana, 2025
Names Louisiana likes more than the rest of the country
Louisiana favorites
Among the state's 100 most-given names in 2021–2025 and at least twice as common there as in the rest of the US.
- Demi (girls): #43 in Louisiana, 8× the rest-of-US rate
- Armani (girls): #94 in Louisiana, 6.6× the rest-of-US rate
- Camille (girls): #21 in Louisiana, 6.3× the rest-of-US rate
- Londyn (girls): #72 in Louisiana, 4.2× the rest-of-US rate
- Journee (girls): #58 in Louisiana, 3.8× the rest-of-US rate
- Kali (girls): #96 in Louisiana, 3.7× the rest-of-US rate
- Karter (boys): #75 in Louisiana, 3.6× the rest-of-US rate
- Khloe (girls): #69 in Louisiana, 3.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Ryleigh (girls): #99 in Louisiana, 3× the rest-of-US rate
- Kingston (boys): #36 in Louisiana, 2.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Hayes (boys): #78 in Louisiana, 2.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Kehlani (girls): #61 in Louisiana, 2.8× the rest-of-US rate
Signature names, rare elsewhere
Given to at least 50 babies in the state in 2021–2025, at least three times as common there as in the rest of the US, and rare nationally (under 200 babies per million).
- Jaci (girls): 55 babies in 2021–2025, 20.7× the rest-of-US rate
- Taysom (boys): 65 babies in 2021–2025, 15× the rest-of-US rate
- Beaux (boys): 145 babies in 2021–2025, 12.7× the rest-of-US rate
- Charm (girls): 61 babies in 2021–2025, 10.8× the rest-of-US rate
- Khaza (boys): 122 babies in 2021–2025, 9.8× the rest-of-US rate
- Landry (girls): 112 babies in 2021–2025, 9.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Denim (boys): 92 babies in 2021–2025, 9.1× the rest-of-US rate
- Mazi (boys): 73 babies in 2021–2025, 8.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Bryleigh (girls): 56 babies in 2021–2025, 8.2× the rest-of-US rate
- Jolie (girls): 123 babies in 2021–2025, 7.7× the rest-of-US rate
- Kamari (girls): 109 babies in 2021–2025, 7.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Tahj (boys): 55 babies in 2021–2025, 7.3× the rest-of-US rate
Number-one baby names in Louisiana by decade
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