Popular baby names in New Mexico
In 2025, New Mexico's top baby names were Mia for girls and Noah for boys. Below: this year's top 20, the names New Mexico 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 New Mexico, 2025
Names New Mexico likes more than the rest of the country
New Mexico 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.
- Xiomara (girls): #93 in New Mexico, 7.3× the rest-of-US rate
- Ariella (girls): #46 in New Mexico, 4.6× the rest-of-US rate
- Ximena (girls): #35 in New Mexico, 4.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Amaya (girls): #51 in New Mexico, 4.2× the rest-of-US rate
- Aziel (boys): #88 in New Mexico, 4.1× the rest-of-US rate
- Aspen (girls): #78 in New Mexico, 4× the rest-of-US rate
- Aitana (girls): #96 in New Mexico, 4× the rest-of-US rate
- Andres (boys): #60 in New Mexico, 4× the rest-of-US rate
- Ezekiel (boys): #4 in New Mexico, 3.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Selena (girls): #88 in New Mexico, 3.8× the rest-of-US rate
- Zayden (boys): #73 in New Mexico, 3.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Amara (girls): #47 in New Mexico, 3.4× 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).
- Zia (girls): 61 babies in 2021–2025, 25.3× the rest-of-US rate
Number-one baby names in New Mexico by decade
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