Popular baby names in North Carolina
In 2025, North Carolina's top baby names were Amelia for girls and Noah for boys. Below: this year's top 20, the names North Carolina 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 North Carolina, 2025
Names North Carolina likes more than the rest of the country
North Carolina 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.
- Caroline (girls): #34 in North Carolina, 2.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Magnolia (girls): #77 in North Carolina, 2× the rest-of-US rate
- Emerson (girls): #86 in North Carolina, 2× 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).
- Everette (boys): 62 babies in 2021–2025, 4.1× the rest-of-US rate
- Merritt (girls): 100 babies in 2021–2025, 4× the rest-of-US rate
- Kymir (boys): 68 babies in 2021–2025, 4× the rest-of-US rate
- Anderson (girls): 62 babies in 2021–2025, 3.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Ivey (girls): 118 babies in 2021–2025, 3.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Hampton (boys): 53 babies in 2021–2025, 3.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Zymir (boys): 88 babies in 2021–2025, 3.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Miller (girls): 139 babies in 2021–2025, 3.3× the rest-of-US rate
- Kashmir (boys): 67 babies in 2021–2025, 3.1× the rest-of-US rate
- Smith (boys): 52 babies in 2021–2025, 3.1× the rest-of-US rate
- Ansley (girls): 83 babies in 2021–2025, 3× the rest-of-US rate
Number-one baby names in North Carolina by decade
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