Popular baby names in South Dakota, 2016

The most popular baby names in South Dakota in 2016 were Emma for girls (66 babies) and Oliver for boys (66). Oliver ranked #12 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 7,181 babies born in South Dakota in 2016 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in South Dakota in 2016

Names given at least 15 times in South Dakota that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Elsie: 16 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Emersyn: 17 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Brynlee: 22 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Quinn: 31 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Clara: 23 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Norah: 15 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Hazel: 33 babies, 4× the national rate
Nora: 36 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Cora: 22 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Hadley: 17 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Boys

Brooks: 23 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Lane: 17 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Jett: 15 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Knox: 19 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Beckett: 20 babies, 5× the national rate
Sawyer: 38 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Emmett: 26 babies, 4× the national rate
Weston: 28 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Bennett: 22 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Ryker: 21 babies, 3.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in South Dakota, 2016

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 2015	US rank
1	Emma	66	↑1	1
2	Harper	56	↓1	11
3	Olivia	48	–	2
4	Charlotte	46	↑28	7
5	Ava	45	↓1	3
6	Avery	42	↑1	16
7	Elizabeth	40	↑8	13
8	Sophia	40	↓2	4
9	Evelyn	36	↓4	12
10	Nora	36	↓1	36
11	Ella	35	↑18	17
12	Hazel	33	↑4	52
13	Grace	32	↓5	19
14	Quinn	31	↑29	79
15	Zoey	30	↑3	26
16	Addison	28	↓5	29
17	Abigail	27	↓3	8
18	Amelia	27	↓8	10
19	Mia	26	↑4	6
20	Paisley	26	↑4	46
21	Isabella	25	↓8	5
22	Madison	25	↓1	15
23	Chloe	24	↓4	20
24	Brooklyn	23	↓12	34
25	Clara	23	↑23	100
26	Lily	23	↑4	24
27	Natalie	23	↑9	31
28	Brynlee	22	new	>100
29	Cora	22	new	87
30	Ellie	22	↑3	43
31	Hannah	22	↓9	33
32	Madelyn	21	↓1	62
33	Stella	21	↓16	45
34	Kennedy	20	new	59
35	Lillian	20	↑15	28
36	Riley	20	new	22
37	Aubrey	19	↓11	25
38	Lydia	19	↑8	80
39	Mila	19	new	48
40	Aria	18	↓2	23
41	Aurora	18	↓14	66
42	Eleanor	18	new	41
43	Nevaeh	18	new	73
44	Serenity	18	new	70
45	Willow	18	new	96
46	Anna	17	↑1	49
47	Claire	17	new	40
48	Emersyn	17	new	>100
49	Hadley	17	↓21	>100
50	Piper	17	↓25	67

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 2015	US rank
1	Oliver	66	–	12
2	Liam	60	↑1	2
3	Owen	55	↓1	24
4	Grayson	50	↑25	37
5	William	49	↑12	3
6	Jackson	48	↓2	17
7	Lincoln	47	↑11	51
8	Hudson	42	↑2	61
9	Benjamin	41	–	6
10	Samuel	41	↑14	21
11	Logan	39	↑5	18
12	Carter	38	↑14	26
13	Jack	38	↑10	38
14	Levi	38	↓9	42
15	Noah	38	↓4	1
16	Sawyer	38	new	97
17	Henry	37	↓10	22
18	Mason	37	↓12	4
19	Elijah	36	↑9	9
20	Jaxon	35	↑13	41
21	Jacob	34	↓8	7
22	Lucas	34	↑15	14
23	Michael	34	↑15	8
24	Gabriel	33	↓2	25
25	Isaac	33	↓10	31
26	Cooper	32	↓6	79
27	Hunter	32	↓15	45
28	Asher	30	↑3	71
29	James	30	↓21	5
30	Landon	30	↑6	53
31	Easton	29	↓17	66
32	Connor	28	new	54
33	Weston	28	new	>100
34	Aiden	27	↓9	16
35	Carson	27	new	81
36	Gavin	27	↑12	80
37	Thomas	27	new	48
38	Caleb	26	↓4	44
39	David	26	↓4	19
40	Emmett	26	↑1	>100
41	Theodore	26	new	83
42	Wyatt	26	↓23	33
43	Charles	25	new	52
44	Ethan	25	↓17	10
45	Joseph	25	↓6	20
46	Christopher	24	new	36
47	Eli	24	–	50
48	Brooks	23	new	>100
49	Daniel	23	↓28	13
50	Andrew	22	↓7	34

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