Charlotte's America: Who Really Won Your State in 2025?

Ask who won 2025 and the national chart gives you a tidy answer: Olivia for girls, Liam for boys.

Ask the states, and a different name walks away with the country. Charlotte is only #2 nationally (13,400 babies) — but she is the #1 girls' name in 28 of the 51 state-level charts (the 50 states plus DC). No other girls' name wins more than 7. On the boys' side, the map splits three ways: Liam takes 15 states, Noah 14 and Oliver 12, with Theodore quietly collecting 6.

This is the full winner table for 2025 — every state, both charts, with the winning counts. It is the piece to bookmark, because "the most popular name in America" and "the most popular name where you actually live" are very often not the same name.

The girls' map

• Charlotte — 28 states. The default girls' name of the American interior and mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania (560 babies), Ohio (551), Virginia (460), Indiana (351), Massachusetts (348) and two dozen more, down to her smallest win, Vermont (35).
• Olivia — 7 states (AZ, CA, FL, IL, NV, OK, WA). The national #1 holds the big coastal and Sun Belt states — and needed 1,796 babies in California alone to do it, more than Charlotte needed in her five smallest states combined.
• Emma — 5 states (DC, NJ, NY, TX, UT). The big-state name: 1,707 babies in Texas, 774 in New York.
• Amelia — 5 states (GA, KY, LA, MS, NC). The South's winner.
• Mia — 2 states (DE, NM).
• One state each: Isla (HI), Ailany (MD), Lainey (SD), Aurora (WY).

The boys' map

• Liam — 15 states. The national #1 does win the boys' map, but it is no landslide: his biggest haul is Texas (2,688), his smallest North Dakota (56).
• Noah — 14 states. Essentially Liam's co-champion — he takes New York (1,381), Pennsylvania (744) and North Carolina (684).
• Oliver — 12 states. The Midwest and mountain choice, from Ohio (653) to Vermont (35).
• Theodore — 6 states (KS, ME, MI, MN, NH, WY). The vintage revival, winning actual states now.
• One state each: John (AL), James (MS), Elijah (HI), Waylon (WV).

The whole table: 2025 state champions

Girls' winner (babies) · Boys' winner (babies), by state:

• Alabama — Charlotte (224) · John (343)
• Alaska — Charlotte (32) · Noah (46)
• Arizona — Olivia (353) · Liam (437)
• Arkansas — Charlotte (148) · Liam (167)
• California — Olivia (1,796) · Liam (2,624)
• Colorado — Charlotte (293) · Liam (397)
• Connecticut — Charlotte (176) · Noah (268)
• Delaware — Mia (43) · Noah (63)
• District of Columbia — Emma (36) · Noah (58)
• Florida — Olivia (1,020) · Liam (1,865)
• Georgia — Amelia (450) · Liam (661)
• Hawaii — Isla (40) · Elijah (49)
• Idaho — Charlotte (104) · Oliver (128)
• Illinois — Olivia (501) · Liam (690)
• Indiana — Charlotte (351) · Oliver (428)
• Iowa — Charlotte (158) · Oliver (198)
• Kansas — Charlotte (178) · Theodore (183)
• Kentucky — Amelia (212) · Oliver (278)
• Louisiana — Amelia (212) · Noah (237)
• Maine — Charlotte (89) · Theodore (83)
• Maryland — Ailany (225) · Liam (463)
• Massachusetts — Charlotte (348) · Noah (468)
• Michigan — Charlotte (381) · Theodore (490)
• Minnesota — Charlotte (238) · Theodore (339)
• Mississippi — Amelia (105) · James (160)
• Missouri — Charlotte (334) · Oliver (405)
• Montana — Charlotte (46) · Oliver (62)
• Nebraska — Charlotte (95) · Liam (149)
• Nevada — Olivia (146) · Liam (205)
• New Hampshire — Charlotte (80) · Theodore (101)
• New Jersey — Emma (428) · Liam (749)
• New Mexico — Mia (66) · Noah (115)
• New York — Emma (774) · Noah (1,381)
• North Carolina — Amelia (459) · Noah (684)
• North Dakota — Charlotte (42) · Liam (56)
• Ohio — Charlotte (551) · Oliver (653)
• Oklahoma — Olivia (178) · Liam (232)
• Oregon — Charlotte (167) · Oliver (199)
• Pennsylvania — Charlotte (560) · Noah (744)
• Rhode Island — Charlotte (49) · Noah (67)
• South Carolina — Charlotte (249) · Noah (276)
• South Dakota — Lainey (50) · Oliver (66)
• Tennessee — Charlotte (423) · Noah (444)
• Texas — Emma (1,707) · Liam (2,688)
• Utah — Emma (193) · Oliver (274)
• Vermont — Charlotte (35) · Oliver (35)
• Virginia — Charlotte (460) · Liam (590)
• Washington — Olivia (327) · Noah (426)
• West Virginia — Charlotte (84) · Waylon (115)
• Wisconsin — Charlotte (282) · Oliver (336)
• Wyoming — Aurora (20) · Theodore (27)

What the table actually says

Two things jump out. First, scale: Aurora won Wyoming with 20 babies. Emma won Texas with 1,707. A "state champion" can mean a name one classroom will hold, or a name an entire generation of Texans will share.

Second, concentration: the girls' map belongs to one name in a way the boys' map doesn't. Charlotte's 28 states is a rout — more than the next three girls' winners combined. The boys produce no equivalent; their map is a genuine three-way split with a regional logic (Oliver in the middle, Noah on the coasts and in the South, Liam everywhere else).

Our advice: When someone tells you a name is "too popular," ask them where. A name that wins 28 states will feel common in most of the country — but popularity is experienced locally, in one state's classrooms. Check your own line of the table before you rule a name in or out: we publish the full charts for girls and boys, and Charlotte's own page shows her state-by-state strength.

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Source: U.S. Social Security Administration · Data through 2025 · Updated 2026