Popular baby names in Montana
In 2025, Montana's top baby names were Charlotte for girls and Oliver for boys. Below: this year's top 20, the names Montana 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 Montana, 2025
Names Montana likes more than the rest of the country
Montana 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.
- Bridger (boys): #83 in Montana, 19.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Colter (boys): #34 in Montana, 9.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Finley (girls): #47 in Montana, 7.8× the rest-of-US rate
- Sawyer (girls): #72 in Montana, 6.2× the rest-of-US rate
- Aspen (girls): #50 in Montana, 6.1× the rest-of-US rate
- Ember (girls): #27 in Montana, 5.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Stetson (boys): #43 in Montana, 5.7× the rest-of-US rate
- Lane (boys): #73 in Montana, 5.3× the rest-of-US rate
- Juniper (girls): #21 in Montana, 5.2× the rest-of-US rate
- Hadley (girls): #22 in Montana, 5.2× the rest-of-US rate
- Wren (girls): #74 in Montana, 4.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Oakley (girls): #46 in Montana, 4.7× the rest-of-US rate
Number-one baby names in Montana by decade
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