Popular baby names in New York
In 2025, New York's top baby names were Emma for girls and Noah for boys. Below: this year's top 20, the names New York 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 York, 2025
Names New York likes more than the rest of the country
New York 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.
- Moshe (boys): #37 in New York, 30.3× the rest-of-US rate
- Chaim (boys): #71 in New York, 25.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Chaya (girls): #46 in New York, 23.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Rivka (girls): #59 in New York, 22.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Chana (girls): #62 in New York, 21.7× the rest-of-US rate
- Yosef (boys): #96 in New York, 14.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Rachel (girls): #36 in New York, 6.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Muhammad (boys): #52 in New York, 6.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Miriam (girls): #41 in New York, 6× the rest-of-US rate
- Esther (girls): #15 in New York, 4.6× the rest-of-US rate
- Sara (girls): #50 in New York, 3.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Abraham (boys): #65 in New York, 3.3× 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).
- Frimy (girls): 66 babies in 2021–2025, 2572.3× the rest-of-US rate
- Malky (girls): 582 babies in 2021–2025, 231.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Rivky (girls): 581 babies in 2021–2025, 198.6× the rest-of-US rate
- Yitty (girls): 476 babies in 2021–2025, 152.1× the rest-of-US rate
- Shaindy (girls): 378 babies in 2021–2025, 150.3× the rest-of-US rate
- Shloimy (boys): 198 babies in 2021–2025, 129.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Pessy (girls): 231 babies in 2021–2025, 125× the rest-of-US rate
- Sury (girls): 412 babies in 2021–2025, 121.6× the rest-of-US rate
- Raizy (girls): 484 babies in 2021–2025, 117.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Goldy (girls): 352 babies in 2021–2025, 108.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Hindy (girls): 403 babies in 2021–2025, 106.1× the rest-of-US rate
- Mendel (boys): 387 babies in 2021–2025, 95.2× the rest-of-US rate
Number-one baby names in New York by decade
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