Popular baby names in Tennessee, 2025
The most popular baby names in Tennessee in 2025 were Charlotte for girls (423 babies) and Noah for boys (444). Charlotte ranked #2 nationally for girls. Noah ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 68,842 babies born in Tennessee in 2025 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.
Names that stood out in Tennessee in 2025
Names given at least 15 times in Tennessee that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.
Girls
- Ellison: 24 babies, 5.3× the national rate
- Merritt: 40 babies, 5× the national rate
- Ivey: 25 babies, 4.4× the national rate
- Ruthie: 28 babies, 4× the national rate
- Lottie: 44 babies, 3.9× the national rate
- Mattie: 19 babies, 3.8× the national rate
- Holland: 39 babies, 3.6× the national rate
- Whitley: 29 babies, 3.5× the national rate
- Tilly: 21 babies, 3.5× the national rate
- Wrenleigh: 28 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Boys
- Neyland: 28 babies, 28.3× the national rate
- Wesson: 20 babies, 3.6× the national rate
- Brewer: 23 babies, 3.4× the national rate
- Wylder: 29 babies, 3.3× the national rate
- Raylan: 22 babies, 3.3× the national rate
- Hollis: 19 babies, 3.3× the national rate
- Houston: 28 babies, 3.2× the national rate
- Peyton: 27 babies, 3.2× the national rate
- Shepherd: 95 babies, 3.1× the national rate
- Dutton: 22 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Tennessee, 2025
| Rank | Name | Babies | vs 2024 | US rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charlotte | 423 | ↑1 | 2 |
| 2 | Amelia | 342 | ↓1 | 4 |
| 3 | Olivia | 276 | – | 1 |
| 4 | Emma | 270 | ↑1 | 3 |
| 5 | Sophia | 244 | ↑6 | 5 |
| 6 | Eleanor | 242 | ↑2 | 12 |
| 7 | Evelyn | 242 | ↓3 | 8 |
| 8 | Harper | 220 | ↓2 | 16 |
| 9 | Elizabeth | 218 | – | 17 |
| 10 | Willow | 197 | ↑4 | 44 |
| 11 | Ailany | 192 | new | 14 |
| 12 | Isabella | 191 | ↑3 | 7 |
| 13 | Ellie | 189 | ↑3 | 24 |
| 14 | Lily | 188 | ↑4 | 18 |
| 15 | Mia | 187 | ↓3 | 6 |
| 16 | Sadie | 186 | ↑12 | 50 |
| 17 | Ivy | 180 | ↑2 | 39 |
| 18 | Lucy | 180 | ↑3 | 25 |
| 19 | Ava | 178 | ↓12 | 11 |
| 20 | Hazel | 178 | ↓10 | 21 |
| 21 | Lainey | 177 | ↓8 | 30 |
| 22 | Ella | 176 | ↑3 | 29 |
| 23 | Eliana | 170 | ↑16 | 10 |
| 24 | Violet | 166 | ↓7 | 13 |
| 25 | Scarlett | 159 | ↓2 | 32 |
| 26 | Aurora | 155 | ↓4 | 15 |
| 27 | Isla | 154 | ↑14 | 28 |
| 28 | Nora | 150 | ↑5 | 20 |
| 29 | Nova | 149 | ↓9 | 46 |
| 30 | Penelope | 143 | new | 22 |
| 31 | Caroline | 139 | ↑13 | 96 |
| 32 | Lillian | 135 | ↑4 | 57 |
| 33 | Millie | 132 | new | 73 |
| 34 | Paisley | 131 | ↓7 | 67 |
| 35 | Riley | 130 | ↓5 | 48 |
| 36 | Naomi | 125 | ↓2 | 47 |
| 37 | Adeline | 121 | ↑10 | 59 |
| 38 | Layla | 121 | ↓12 | 36 |
| 39 | Ruby | 121 | new | 64 |
| 40 | Avery | 116 | ↓11 | 37 |
| 41 | Eloise | 116 | new | 49 |
| 42 | Grace | 115 | new | 38 |
| 43 | Delilah | 114 | new | 51 |
| 44 | Luna | 114 | ↓12 | 27 |
| 45 | Zoe | 113 | ↓10 | 31 |
| 46 | Magnolia | 111 | new | >100 |
| 47 | Sofia | 111 | ↓10 | 9 |
| 48 | Hallie | 110 | new | >100 |
| 49 | Chloe | 107 | ↓18 | 23 |
| 50 | Abigail | 106 | ↓10 | 41 |
| Rank | Name | Babies | vs 2024 | US rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noah | 444 | ↑3 | 2 |
| 2 | Liam | 425 | ↓1 | 1 |
| 3 | Oliver | 411 | ↓1 | 3 |
| 4 | James | 385 | ↑1 | 6 |
| 5 | Henry | 376 | ↑2 | 5 |
| 6 | William | 374 | ↓3 | 9 |
| 7 | Hudson | 323 | ↑2 | 17 |
| 8 | Theodore | 323 | ↑4 | 4 |
| 9 | Waylon | 299 | ↑1 | 56 |
| 10 | John | 297 | ↓2 | 23 |
| 11 | Elijah | 270 | ↓5 | 7 |
| 12 | Levi | 263 | ↑1 | 12 |
| 13 | Asher | 253 | ↓2 | 28 |
| 14 | Samuel | 249 | – | 18 |
| 15 | Wyatt | 242 | ↑2 | 38 |
| 16 | Jack | 237 | – | 15 |
| 17 | Cooper | 229 | ↑4 | 27 |
| 18 | Grayson | 225 | ↓3 | 51 |
| 19 | Benjamin | 214 | ↑3 | 11 |
| 20 | Walker | 213 | ↑3 | 78 |
| 21 | Lucas | 209 | ↓3 | 10 |
| 22 | Jackson | 208 | ↓3 | 36 |
| 23 | Ezra | 204 | ↑5 | 20 |
| 24 | Weston | 203 | ↑9 | 55 |
| 25 | Maverick | 198 | ↓5 | 49 |
| 26 | Elias | 193 | ↑14 | 13 |
| 27 | Charles | 191 | ↑2 | 48 |
| 28 | Michael | 188 | ↑2 | 21 |
| 29 | Carter | 177 | ↓2 | 45 |
| 30 | Bennett | 170 | ↑1 | 40 |
| 31 | Beau | 167 | ↑17 | 60 |
| 32 | Luke | 166 | ↓6 | 33 |
| 33 | Daniel | 165 | ↑3 | 22 |
| 34 | Thomas | 165 | ↓10 | 34 |
| 35 | Dylan | 159 | ↑4 | 41 |
| 36 | Everett | 157 | new | 77 |
| 37 | Rowan | 156 | ↑5 | 59 |
| 38 | Silas | 156 | ↑3 | 71 |
| 39 | Owen | 154 | ↓14 | 31 |
| 40 | Roman | 154 | new | 42 |
| 41 | Mason | 153 | ↓4 | 39 |
| 42 | David | 152 | ↓10 | 35 |
| 43 | Stetson | 151 | new | >100 |
| 44 | Gabriel | 150 | new | 37 |
| 45 | Joseph | 148 | ↓7 | 29 |
| 46 | Mateo | 147 | ↓12 | 8 |
| 47 | Miles | 146 | ↓12 | 44 |
| 48 | Ethan | 145 | new | 24 |
| 49 | Brooks | 144 | new | 64 |
| 50 | Eithan | 144 | new | 97 |