Popular baby names in South Carolina
In 2025, South Carolina's top baby names were Charlotte for girls and Noah for boys. Below: this year's top 20, the names South 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 South Carolina, 2025
Names South Carolina likes more than the rest of the country
South 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.
- Kingston (boys): #30 in South Carolina, 3.6× the rest-of-US rate
- Journee (girls): #78 in South Carolina, 3.3× the rest-of-US rate
- Karter (boys): #94 in South Carolina, 3× the rest-of-US rate
- Mary (girls): #48 in South Carolina, 2.8× the rest-of-US rate
- Blakely (girls): #80 in South Carolina, 2.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Magnolia (girls): #65 in South Carolina, 2.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Legend (boys): #63 in South Carolina, 2.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Messiah (boys): #91 in South Carolina, 2.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Caroline (girls): #38 in South Carolina, 2.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Raelynn (girls): #46 in South Carolina, 2.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Margaret (girls): #57 in South Carolina, 2.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Emerson (girls): #84 in South Carolina, 2.3× 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).
- Hampton (boys): 116 babies in 2021–2025, 22.2× the rest-of-US rate
- Sullivan (girls): 65 babies in 2021–2025, 15.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Kymir (boys): 58 babies in 2021–2025, 8.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Tymir (boys): 53 babies in 2021–2025, 8.2× the rest-of-US rate
- Ellison (girls): 97 babies in 2021–2025, 7.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Ansley (girls): 77 babies in 2021–2025, 7.1× the rest-of-US rate
- Zymir (boys): 72 babies in 2021–2025, 6.8× the rest-of-US rate
- Knowledge (boys): 60 babies in 2021–2025, 5.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Tylan (boys): 57 babies in 2021–2025, 5.6× the rest-of-US rate
- Coleman (boys): 51 babies in 2021–2025, 5.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Jalani (girls): 50 babies in 2021–2025, 4.8× the rest-of-US rate
- Khaza (boys): 61 babies in 2021–2025, 4.6× the rest-of-US rate
Number-one baby names in South Carolina by decade
South Carolina baby names by year
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