Popular baby names in Michigan, 2021
The most popular baby names in Michigan in 2021 were Charlotte for girls (510 babies) and Noah for boys (491). Charlotte ranked #3 nationally for girls. Noah ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 81,301 babies born in Michigan in 2021 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.
Names that stood out in Michigan in 2021
Names given at least 15 times in Michigan that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.
Girls
- Malak: 22 babies, 8.5× the national rate
- Layan: 30 babies, 7× the national rate
- Ayah: 24 babies, 4.2× the national rate
- Jana: 20 babies, 3.8× the national rate
- Aya: 30 babies, 3.7× the national rate
- Mariam: 39 babies, 3.6× the national rate
- Zainab: 23 babies, 3.5× the national rate
- Mira: 47 babies, 3.1× the national rate
- Liberty: 32 babies, 2.9× the national rate
- Amoura: 22 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Boys
- Mahdi: 23 babies, 14× the national rate
- Hussein: 31 babies, 12.7× the national rate
- Henrik: 36 babies, 5.6× the national rate
- Ali: 123 babies, 5.2× the national rate
- Hassan: 40 babies, 5.2× the national rate
- Ameer: 31 babies, 4.4× the national rate
- Mohamed: 52 babies, 3.8× the national rate
- Mohammed: 35 babies, 3.7× the national rate
- Yousef: 22 babies, 3.5× the national rate
- Musa: 27 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Michigan, 2021
| Rank | Name | Babies | vs 2020 | US rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charlotte | 510 | – | 3 |
| 2 | Olivia | 449 | ↑1 | 1 |
| 3 | Ava | 422 | ↑1 | 5 |
| 4 | Amelia | 421 | ↓2 | 4 |
| 5 | Evelyn | 357 | ↑1 | 9 |
| 6 | Sophia | 353 | ↑1 | 6 |
| 7 | Emma | 351 | ↓2 | 2 |
| 8 | Harper | 289 | – | 10 |
| 9 | Isabella | 274 | – | 7 |
| 10 | Eleanor | 264 | ↑1 | 15 |
| 11 | Nora | 233 | ↓1 | 27 |
| 12 | Layla | 223 | ↑6 | 24 |
| 13 | Mia | 217 | ↓1 | 8 |
| 14 | Ella | 215 | ↓1 | 16 |
| 15 | Isla | 212 | ↑21 | 34 |
| 16 | Violet | 208 | ↑9 | 36 |
| 17 | Aria | 207 | ↑23 | 22 |
| 18 | Mila | 206 | ↓2 | 26 |
| 19 | Gianna | 204 | ↑2 | 13 |
| 20 | Willow | 204 | ↑15 | 39 |
| 21 | Penelope | 203 | ↑11 | 23 |
| 22 | Aurora | 202 | ↑6 | 35 |
| 23 | Avery | 200 | ↓3 | 19 |
| 24 | Nova | 198 | ↓1 | 32 |
| 25 | Hazel | 196 | ↓1 | 28 |
| 26 | Elizabeth | 191 | ↓11 | 14 |
| 27 | Grace | 188 | ↓10 | 33 |
| 28 | Riley | 186 | ↑1 | 37 |
| 29 | Ellie | 182 | ↑19 | 30 |
| 30 | Madison | 176 | ↓16 | 29 |
| 31 | Lucy | 175 | ↑3 | 48 |
| 32 | Scarlett | 167 | ↑1 | 20 |
| 33 | Abigail | 165 | ↓14 | 17 |
| 34 | Lillian | 164 | ↓8 | 51 |
| 35 | Luna | 164 | ↓8 | 11 |
| 36 | Claire | 159 | ↑8 | 59 |
| 37 | Stella | 158 | ↓6 | 41 |
| 38 | Chloe | 156 | ↓16 | 25 |
| 39 | Kinsley | 155 | ↑2 | 57 |
| 40 | Paisley | 151 | ↓10 | 52 |
| 41 | Josephine | 150 | ↑8 | 72 |
| 42 | Kennedy | 150 | ↑4 | 70 |
| 43 | Natalie | 147 | – | 56 |
| 44 | Zoey | 147 | ↓7 | 38 |
| 45 | Brooklyn | 145 | ↓7 | 63 |
| 46 | Lily | 142 | ↓1 | 31 |
| 47 | Addison | 141 | new | 45 |
| 48 | Ivy | 138 | ↑2 | 49 |
| 49 | Peyton | 131 | new | 100 |
| 50 | Quinn | 131 | new | 81 |
| Rank | Name | Babies | vs 2020 | US rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noah | 491 | ↑1 | 2 |
| 2 | Oliver | 478 | ↓1 | 3 |
| 3 | Liam | 416 | – | 1 |
| 4 | Henry | 402 | – | 9 |
| 5 | Elijah | 382 | ↑1 | 4 |
| 6 | Benjamin | 363 | ↓1 | 7 |
| 7 | Theodore | 361 | ↑7 | 10 |
| 8 | Jack | 351 | ↑3 | 11 |
| 9 | Lucas | 346 | ↑1 | 8 |
| 10 | Owen | 346 | ↓1 | 22 |
| 11 | Levi | 342 | ↑4 | 12 |
| 12 | Hudson | 318 | ↑9 | 34 |
| 13 | Lincoln | 313 | – | 45 |
| 14 | William | 310 | ↓7 | 6 |
| 15 | Jackson | 301 | ↑8 | 14 |
| 16 | Mason | 301 | ↓4 | 18 |
| 17 | James | 300 | ↓9 | 5 |
| 18 | Wyatt | 292 | – | 29 |
| 19 | Carter | 270 | ↑3 | 39 |
| 20 | Logan | 259 | ↓1 | 21 |
| 21 | Michael | 256 | ↓5 | 17 |
| 22 | Luke | 246 | ↑8 | 32 |
| 23 | Alexander | 243 | ↓3 | 13 |
| 24 | Grayson | 235 | ↓7 | 35 |
| 25 | Joseph | 235 | ↓1 | 28 |
| 26 | Asher | 229 | ↑1 | 25 |
| 27 | Isaac | 225 | ↑2 | 40 |
| 28 | Maverick | 225 | ↑5 | 47 |
| 29 | Leo | 217 | ↓4 | 31 |
| 30 | Gabriel | 212 | ↑11 | 38 |
| 31 | Ezra | 205 | ↑3 | 37 |
| 32 | Aiden | 203 | ↓1 | 26 |
| 33 | Cameron | 196 | new | 62 |
| 34 | Jaxon | 196 | ↑11 | 54 |
| 35 | Daniel | 192 | ↑4 | 16 |
| 36 | Brooks | 191 | new | 78 |
| 37 | Roman | 188 | new | 74 |
| 38 | Colton | 187 | ↓10 | 75 |
| 39 | Samuel | 186 | ↓2 | 23 |
| 40 | Thomas | 185 | ↑6 | 46 |
| 41 | Miles | 184 | ↑7 | 55 |
| 42 | Ethan | 182 | ↓16 | 20 |
| 43 | Jacob | 181 | ↓11 | 24 |
| 44 | John | 180 | ↓9 | 27 |
| 45 | David | 176 | ↓1 | 30 |
| 46 | Charles | 175 | ↓10 | 50 |
| 47 | Isaiah | 168 | ↓4 | 56 |
| 48 | Andrew | 166 | new | 57 |
| 49 | Anthony | 166 | new | 43 |
| 50 | Easton | 166 | ↓10 | 72 |
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