Popular baby names in North Dakota
In 2025, North Dakota's top baby names were Charlotte for girls and Liam for boys. Below: this year's top 20, the names North Dakota 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 Dakota, 2025
Names North Dakota likes more than the rest of the country
North Dakota 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): #87 in North Dakota, 19.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Hattie (girls): #55 in North Dakota, 10.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Briggs (boys): #60 in North Dakota, 8.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Colter (boys): #63 in North Dakota, 6.6× the rest-of-US rate
- Lennon (girls): #52 in North Dakota, 6.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Otto (boys): #81 in North Dakota, 6.1× the rest-of-US rate
- Elsie (girls): #33 in North Dakota, 5.8× the rest-of-US rate
- Collins (girls): #77 in North Dakota, 5.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Hadley (girls): #23 in North Dakota, 5.3× the rest-of-US rate
- Brynlee (girls): #74 in North Dakota, 5.1× the rest-of-US rate
- Wrenley (girls): #68 in North Dakota, 5.1× the rest-of-US rate
- Hayes (boys): #44 in North Dakota, 5.1× the rest-of-US rate
Number-one baby names in North Dakota by decade
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