Popular baby names in West Virginia
In 2025, West Virginia's top baby names were Charlotte for girls and Waylon for boys. Below: this year's top 20, the names West Virginia 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 West Virginia, 2025
Names West Virginia likes more than the rest of the country
West Virginia 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.
- Oaklynn (girls): #13 in West Virginia, 8.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Kohen (boys): #89 in West Virginia, 7.2× the rest-of-US rate
- Remington (boys): #53 in West Virginia, 6.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Wrenley (girls): #37 in West Virginia, 6.2× the rest-of-US rate
- Gracelynn (girls): #98 in West Virginia, 6× the rest-of-US rate
- Octavia (girls): #61 in West Virginia, 5.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Colson (boys): #92 in West Virginia, 5.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Everleigh (girls): #26 in West Virginia, 5.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Waylon (boys): #1 in West Virginia, 5.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Jensen (boys): #90 in West Virginia, 5.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Colt (boys): #73 in West Virginia, 5.1× the rest-of-US rate
- Oakley (girls): #38 in West Virginia, 4.9× the rest-of-US rate
Number-one baby names in West Virginia by decade
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