Popular baby names in New Jersey, 2025
The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 2025 were Emma for girls (428 babies) and Liam for boys (749). Emma ranked #3 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 75,265 babies born in New Jersey in 2025 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.
Names that stood out in New Jersey in 2025
Names given at least 15 times in New Jersey that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.
Girls
- Rochel: 74 babies, 22.8× the national rate
- Yehudis: 62 babies, 22.6× the national rate
- Malka: 122 babies, 22.3× the national rate
- Ahuva: 49 babies, 22.2× the national rate
- Batsheva: 40 babies, 22.1× the national rate
- Devora: 44 babies, 21.9× the national rate
- Basya: 21 babies, 21.6× the national rate
- Leeba: 21 babies, 21.6× the national rate
- Tzipora: 25 babies, 21× the national rate
- Nechama: 52 babies, 19.3× the national rate
Boys
- Avrohom: 60 babies, 29.3× the national rate
- Binyomin: 42 babies, 27.3× the national rate
- Dovid: 99 babies, 25.5× the national rate
- Boruch: 20 babies, 23.9× the national rate
- Yaakov: 113 babies, 22.3× the national rate
- Yehoshua: 45 babies, 21× the national rate
- Ahron: 34 babies, 20.9× the national rate
- Shlomo: 102 babies, 20.8× the national rate
- Tzvi: 91 babies, 19.5× the national rate
- Shmuel: 114 babies, 19.1× the national rate
Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 2025
| Rank | Name | Babies | vs 2024 | US rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emma | 428 | ↑2 | 3 |
| 2 | Mia | 427 | ↓1 | 6 |
| 3 | Olivia | 396 | ↑1 | 1 |
| 4 | Sophia | 396 | ↓2 | 5 |
| 5 | Isabella | 368 | ↑2 | 7 |
| 6 | Charlotte | 340 | ↓1 | 2 |
| 7 | Amelia | 317 | ↓1 | 4 |
| 8 | Ailany | 299 | new | 14 |
| 9 | Sofia | 292 | ↓1 | 9 |
| 10 | Ava | 286 | – | 11 |
| 11 | Esther | 248 | ↑1 | >100 |
| 12 | Chloe | 246 | ↑2 | 23 |
| 13 | Leah | 244 | ↓4 | 58 |
| 14 | Zoe | 241 | ↓3 | 31 |
| 15 | Eliana | 240 | ↑12 | 10 |
| 16 | Madison | 232 | ↑1 | 40 |
| 17 | Lily | 215 | ↑6 | 18 |
| 18 | Emily | 206 | ↑1 | 34 |
| 19 | Valentina | 206 | ↓4 | 35 |
| 20 | Nora | 192 | ↑14 | 20 |
| 21 | Gianna | 190 | ↓5 | 33 |
| 22 | Sara | 190 | ↑8 | >100 |
| 23 | Layla | 186 | ↑14 | 36 |
| 24 | Aria | 183 | ↑1 | 26 |
| 25 | Hannah | 182 | ↑11 | 56 |
| 26 | Mila | 179 | ↓8 | 43 |
| 27 | Grace | 175 | ↑1 | 38 |
| 28 | Luna | 174 | ↓15 | 27 |
| 29 | Miriam | 173 | ↓8 | >100 |
| 30 | Penelope | 173 | ↑3 | 22 |
| 31 | Sarah | 173 | ↑13 | 90 |
| 32 | Ella | 169 | ↓6 | 29 |
| 33 | Evelyn | 169 | ↑17 | 8 |
| 34 | Harper | 167 | ↓14 | 16 |
| 35 | Emilia | 166 | ↑10 | 45 |
| 36 | Avery | 161 | ↑7 | 37 |
| 37 | Aurora | 160 | ↑11 | 15 |
| 38 | Lucy | 156 | new | 25 |
| 39 | Scarlett | 154 | ↓10 | 32 |
| 40 | Rivka | 152 | ↓5 | >100 |
| 41 | Ellie | 149 | new | 24 |
| 42 | Violet | 149 | ↓11 | 13 |
| 43 | Camila | 147 | ↓21 | 19 |
| 44 | Isla | 147 | ↓3 | 28 |
| 45 | Chaya | 145 | ↑1 | >100 |
| 46 | Sienna | 145 | new | 94 |
| 47 | Stella | 145 | ↓8 | 52 |
| 48 | Riley | 144 | ↓10 | 48 |
| 49 | Gabriella | 137 | new | >100 |
| 50 | Victoria | 136 | ↓10 | 54 |
| Rank | Name | Babies | vs 2024 | US rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liam | 749 | – | 1 |
| 2 | Noah | 742 | – | 2 |
| 3 | Lucas | 399 | – | 10 |
| 4 | Luca | 378 | ↑3 | 14 |
| 5 | Joseph | 374 | ↓1 | 29 |
| 6 | James | 350 | ↑3 | 6 |
| 7 | Michael | 343 | ↓2 | 21 |
| 8 | Theodore | 338 | ↑7 | 4 |
| 9 | Oliver | 335 | ↑1 | 3 |
| 10 | Jack | 333 | ↑1 | 15 |
| 11 | Anthony | 327 | ↓3 | 46 |
| 12 | Benjamin | 299 | – | 11 |
| 13 | Leo | 298 | ↑8 | 19 |
| 14 | Ethan | 295 | ↓8 | 24 |
| 15 | Jacob | 274 | ↑3 | 43 |
| 16 | Mateo | 274 | ↑4 | 8 |
| 17 | Daniel | 256 | – | 22 |
| 18 | Alexander | 255 | ↑15 | 30 |
| 19 | Dylan | 255 | ↓6 | 41 |
| 20 | Matthew | 253 | ↓1 | 32 |
| 21 | Thiago | 253 | ↑4 | 50 |
| 22 | Logan | 235 | ↓8 | 53 |
| 23 | David | 232 | ↓7 | 35 |
| 24 | Thomas | 231 | ↑12 | 34 |
| 25 | Cameron | 226 | ↓2 | 76 |
| 26 | John | 223 | – | 23 |
| 27 | Henry | 221 | ↓3 | 5 |
| 28 | Sebastian | 217 | ↓6 | 16 |
| 29 | Moshe | 207 | ↑18 | >100 |
| 30 | Cooper | 204 | new | 27 |
| 31 | Jayden | 204 | ↓3 | 70 |
| 32 | Elias | 200 | ↑18 | 13 |
| 33 | Owen | 200 | ↓1 | 31 |
| 34 | William | 200 | ↓3 | 9 |
| 35 | Nathan | 199 | ↑6 | 63 |
| 36 | Samuel | 199 | ↑7 | 18 |
| 37 | Luke | 197 | ↑9 | 33 |
| 38 | Mason | 194 | ↓1 | 39 |
| 39 | Aiden | 192 | ↓12 | 62 |
| 40 | Nicholas | 192 | ↑2 | >100 |
| 41 | Julian | 190 | ↓6 | 25 |
| 42 | Miles | 189 | ↑7 | 44 |
| 43 | Levi | 185 | ↓5 | 12 |
| 44 | Ryan | 185 | ↑4 | 99 |
| 45 | Christopher | 183 | ↓1 | 68 |
| 46 | Asher | 181 | ↓12 | 28 |
| 47 | Isaac | 181 | ↓17 | 47 |
| 48 | Aaron | 178 | new | 80 |
| 49 | Elijah | 177 | ↓20 | 7 |
| 50 | Ian | 176 | new | 83 |