Names of America’s communities
815 names across 11 traditions. Every name links to its own page: meaning, origin and, where the records allow it, a century of popularity.
The United States names its children in many traditions at once, and the Social Security records show all of them side by side. The collections below follow the communities that shaped those records: African American, Arab, Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Korean, Mexican and Vietnamese American families. Canada and Puerto Rico keep their own records here too.
On the records today
The official lists from this region, each with its own page. The names shown lead the latest list.
Most given in the United States, 2020 to 2025
- 1Liam125,025 births
- 2Noah118,698 births
- 3Elijah72,201 births
- 4Mia68,231 births
- 5Henry68,130 births
- 6Isabella67,693 births
- 7Benjamin64,976 births
- 8Mateo62,327 births
- 9Levi57,552 births
- 10Sebastian53,522 births
- 11Daniel52,805 births
- 12Michael52,750 births
- 13Samuel50,381 births
- 14Ezra50,076 births
- 15Asher48,519 births
- 16John48,414 births
- 17Joseph46,389 births
- 18Luna46,225 births
- 19Camila46,044 births
- 20David45,664 births
The names on this page that appear in Social Security records, ranked by births in 2020 to 2025. Names the records do not publish (spellings given to fewer than five babies a year) cannot appear here.
The collections
Every collection below is one tradition, with the meaning and origin of each name.
Names that work in two languagesEnglish and Spanish · English and Portuguese