Popular baby names in Missouri, 2025
The most popular baby names in Missouri in 2025 were Charlotte for girls (334 babies) and Oliver for boys (405). Charlotte ranked #2 nationally for girls. Oliver ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 52,110 babies born in Missouri in 2025 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.
Names that stood out in Missouri in 2025
Names given at least 15 times in Missouri that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.
Girls
- Whitley: 33 babies, 5.2× the national rate
- Wrenleigh: 25 babies, 4× the national rate
- Ezra: 20 babies, 4× the national rate
- Kimber: 17 babies, 4× the national rate
- Rynlee: 21 babies, 3.9× the national rate
- Baylor: 23 babies, 3.7× the national rate
- Kinley: 22 babies, 3.6× the national rate
- Wrenley: 91 babies, 3.2× the national rate
- Ruthie: 17 babies, 3.2× the national rate
- Finley: 35 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Boys
- Boaz: 18 babies, 4.1× the national rate
- Clay: 30 babies, 3.6× the national rate
- Creed: 24 babies, 3.6× the national rate
- Amos: 21 babies, 3.5× the national rate
- Keaton: 19 babies, 3.5× the national rate
- Fletcher: 30 babies, 3.4× the national rate
- Bryer: 21 babies, 3.4× the national rate
- Ryatt: 20 babies, 3.3× the national rate
- Mccoy: 16 babies, 3.2× the national rate
- Memphis: 21 babies, 3× the national rate
Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Missouri, 2025
| Rank | Name | Babies | vs 2024 | US rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charlotte | 334 | ↑1 | 2 |
| 2 | Amelia | 288 | ↓1 | 4 |
| 3 | Olivia | 260 | – | 1 |
| 4 | Eleanor | 248 | – | 12 |
| 5 | Evelyn | 227 | – | 8 |
| 6 | Sophia | 211 | – | 5 |
| 7 | Emma | 196 | – | 3 |
| 8 | Violet | 183 | ↑2 | 13 |
| 9 | Willow | 183 | ↑7 | 44 |
| 10 | Harper | 176 | ↓2 | 16 |
| 11 | Aurora | 167 | ↑6 | 15 |
| 12 | Nora | 164 | ↑6 | 20 |
| 13 | Elizabeth | 154 | ↓1 | 17 |
| 14 | Ava | 148 | ↓1 | 11 |
| 15 | Ellie | 148 | – | 24 |
| 16 | Lucy | 147 | ↑7 | 25 |
| 17 | Lainey | 145 | ↓6 | 30 |
| 18 | Hazel | 143 | ↓9 | 21 |
| 19 | Isabella | 136 | – | 7 |
| 20 | Penelope | 136 | ↑2 | 22 |
| 21 | Mia | 126 | ↓7 | 6 |
| 22 | Ivy | 123 | ↑2 | 39 |
| 23 | Nova | 123 | ↓2 | 46 |
| 24 | Lily | 120 | ↑7 | 18 |
| 25 | Scarlett | 120 | ↑3 | 32 |
| 26 | Ella | 117 | ↓1 | 29 |
| 27 | Lillian | 117 | – | 57 |
| 28 | Millie | 116 | ↑10 | 73 |
| 29 | Paisley | 111 | ↓9 | 67 |
| 30 | Isla | 109 | ↑2 | 28 |
| 31 | Avery | 108 | ↓5 | 37 |
| 32 | Josephine | 108 | ↓3 | 53 |
| 33 | Sadie | 107 | new | 50 |
| 34 | Vivian | 106 | ↑1 | 72 |
| 35 | Eloise | 105 | ↑10 | 49 |
| 36 | Clara | 102 | ↑7 | 63 |
| 37 | Delilah | 101 | ↓4 | 51 |
| 38 | Naomi | 101 | ↓1 | 47 |
| 39 | Eliana | 100 | new | 10 |
| 40 | Iris | 99 | new | 61 |
| 41 | Lydia | 94 | ↑1 | 92 |
| 42 | Wrenley | 91 | ↓6 | >100 |
| 43 | Eden | 87 | new | 70 |
| 44 | Stella | 87 | ↓3 | 52 |
| 45 | Riley | 86 | ↓5 | 48 |
| 46 | Chloe | 85 | ↑2 | 23 |
| 47 | Emery | 84 | new | 74 |
| 48 | Ruby | 84 | new | 64 |
| 49 | Layla | 83 | ↓19 | 36 |
| 50 | Daisy | 81 | ↓1 | 75 |
| Rank | Name | Babies | vs 2024 | US rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oliver | 405 | – | 3 |
| 2 | Theodore | 393 | ↑1 | 4 |
| 3 | Henry | 327 | ↓1 | 5 |
| 4 | Noah | 322 | – | 2 |
| 5 | Hudson | 284 | ↑3 | 17 |
| 6 | Liam | 284 | ↓1 | 1 |
| 7 | William | 253 | – | 9 |
| 8 | James | 248 | ↓2 | 6 |
| 9 | Cooper | 222 | ↑5 | 27 |
| 10 | Bennett | 216 | ↑12 | 40 |
| 11 | Elijah | 210 | ↓2 | 7 |
| 12 | Levi | 199 | ↑7 | 12 |
| 13 | Waylon | 199 | – | 56 |
| 14 | Jack | 179 | ↓4 | 15 |
| 15 | Samuel | 175 | ↑2 | 18 |
| 16 | Benjamin | 174 | ↑4 | 11 |
| 17 | Maverick | 174 | ↓5 | 49 |
| 18 | Thomas | 173 | ↑17 | 34 |
| 19 | Wyatt | 173 | ↓4 | 38 |
| 20 | August | 168 | ↑5 | 81 |
| 21 | John | 166 | ↑3 | 23 |
| 22 | Owen | 161 | ↓6 | 31 |
| 23 | Weston | 158 | ↑13 | 55 |
| 24 | Beau | 157 | ↑4 | 60 |
| 25 | Michael | 155 | ↑5 | 21 |
| 26 | Asher | 154 | ↓15 | 28 |
| 27 | Jackson | 153 | ↓6 | 36 |
| 28 | Lucas | 153 | ↓5 | 10 |
| 29 | Charles | 152 | – | 48 |
| 30 | Grayson | 152 | ↓4 | 51 |
| 31 | Luke | 151 | ↑3 | 33 |
| 32 | Ezra | 150 | ↑1 | 20 |
| 33 | Miles | 149 | ↓2 | 44 |
| 34 | Leo | 144 | ↑6 | 19 |
| 35 | Brooks | 141 | new | 64 |
| 36 | Wesley | 141 | ↑8 | 52 |
| 37 | Carter | 137 | ↓19 | 45 |
| 38 | Daniel | 135 | ↓1 | 22 |
| 39 | Elias | 134 | ↑4 | 13 |
| 40 | Lincoln | 134 | ↓8 | 69 |
| 41 | Nolan | 129 | new | 65 |
| 42 | Atlas | 128 | new | 75 |
| 43 | Joseph | 126 | ↓5 | 29 |
| 44 | Everett | 125 | ↑6 | 77 |
| 45 | Rowan | 125 | ↓6 | 59 |
| 46 | Silas | 123 | new | 71 |
| 47 | David | 115 | – | 35 |
| 48 | Mason | 114 | ↓21 | 39 |
| 49 | Archer | 112 | new | 98 |
| 50 | Walker | 110 | ↓9 | 78 |