👶 Top Kiddos Names by Country

Published rankings

Baby Names in the United States

The American list comes from the Social Security Administration, which compiles it from applications for Social Security cards and has published it back to 1880. To protect privacy, the SSA only releases names given to at least five children of the same sex in a year. The ranking shows the top 50 per sex for the whole country.

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About KiddosNames

Every year, a public body in each of these countries counts the names given to newborns and publishes the result. In Germany, where no public body does, a language association fills the gap. KiddosNames collects those thirteen lists and puts them side by side. Nothing here comes from votes, forums or commercial name databases. The sources include Statistik Austria, the Office for National Statistics, INSEE, Statistics Norway and the Social Security Administration; the full list is below.

Most people arrive with a name in mind and want to know how common it really is. That turns out to depend almost entirely on where you ask. Olivia is number one in England and Wales, Canada and the United States, and ranks in twelve of the thirteen countries. Louise leads in France and appears in no other ranking on this site. Leonardo leads in Italy and, outside Italy, ranks only in Switzerland. Switching between the flags above shows you which kind of name you have picked.

Each entry carries its rank for the year you have selected, what the name means in the language it came from, and a short note on its history. Origins are grouped by language family: Germanic, Latin, Hebrew, Greek, Celtic, Norse, Slavic and a few smaller ones. Where a name also ranks elsewhere, the card says so and gives its position there.

All thirteen countries are fetched automatically, four times a year, from the body that publishes the figures. Each country page names its source. Canada is the exception worth knowing about: there is no national naming statistic there, so the ranking sums Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia, roughly three quarters of the population. Each office releases a new year at its own time, so the latest available year differs from country to country.

Data Sources by Country

Frequently Asked Questions

Where does the baby name data come from?
Each ranking comes from the body that publishes the figures for its country: Statistik Austria, the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, the Office for National Statistics for England and Wales, INSEE in France, ISTAT in Italy, the INE in Spain, the Sociale Verzekeringsbank in the Netherlands, Skatteverket in Sweden, Statistics Norway, Danmarks Statistik and the Social Security Administration in the United States. Two countries need a note. Germany has no state statistic of first names, so its list comes from the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache, an association that evaluates data from registry offices. Canada registers births by province, so its ranking is the sum of Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia. Nothing on the site is estimated or crowdsourced, and the about page explains each source in detail.
How often is the data updated?
All thirteen sources are read automatically four times a year, at the start of January, April, July and October. Each office releases a new year once a year, and they do so at different times, so the most recent year shown differs between countries. A source that cannot be reached keeps its last verified figures rather than disappearing from the site.
What do the name origins and meanings represent?
The meaning given is the one the name carried in the language it came from, not a modern interpretation. Emma goes back to the Old Germanic ermen, meaning whole or universal. Noah is Hebrew for rest or comfort. Origins are labelled by language, most often Hebrew, Latin, Greek and Germanic, followed by Norse, English, Irish and Arabic. Plenty of names belong to two traditions at once, and those carry both labels. Where the origin of a name is genuinely disputed, the entry leaves the meaning out rather than guessing.
Which names are popular in many countries at once?
Noah is the clearest case. In each country's most recent figures (2025, or 2024 for Spain, Italy and Canada) he appears in all thirteen lists and is the most common boys' name in seven of them. Liam ranks in eleven countries, Luca and Oliver in ten. For girls, Olivia and Sofia each rank in twelve countries and Emma and Mia in eleven, while the top spot is split: Olivia leads in three countries, Sofia in three, Emma in two. The rankings show where a name is used, not why, so this site does not speculate about the causes.
Can I compare how popular a name is across different countries?
Yes. Each name card on this page has an "also popular in" row with up to six other countries where the same name ranks, best position first. Switch between the flags at the top to open another country's list, and use the year buttons to go back as far as 2021. Each country also has its own page with the full ranking, the biggest movers between the last two years and the names that rank there and nowhere else.
What does the badge next to a country mean?
It shows how many names per sex the list contains. Twelve of the thirteen countries are shown with their top 50. Germany is the exception, because the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache publishes only ten names per sex.
Are there names that are only popular in one country?
Many. In each country's most recent figures, Italy has 58 names in its ranking that appear in none of the other twelve countries, among them Edoardo, Tommaso and Francesco. The Netherlands has 42, including Sem and Daan; England and Wales have 40, including Freddie, Archie and Alfie; Norway has 34, including Olav and Ulrik; Denmark has 29, including Valdemar and Malthe. Each country page lists its own.
Do short names travel better?
A little, and more for girls than for boys. In each country's most recent figures, girls' names that rank in six or more countries average 4.6 letters, against 5.5 for girls' names that rank in only one country. For boys the figures are 5.2 and 5.6. Short names such as Mia, Ella, Leo and Noah each rank in nine or more countries, but longer names travel too: Olivia ranks in twelve and Gabriel in nine.