Most Popular Boy Names in the U.S. 2022

Try to guess the 50 most popular names for baby boys born in the United States in the year 2022.

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	Name
L	Liam
N	Noah
O	Oliver
J	James
E	Elijah
W	William
H	Henry
L	Lucas
B	Benjamin
T	Theodore

	Name
M	Mateo
L	Levi
S	Sebastian
D	Daniel
J	Jack
M	Michael
A	Alexander
O	Owen
A	Asher
S	Samuel

	Name
E	Ethan
L	Leo
J	Jackson
M	Mason
E	Ezra
J	John
H	Hudson
L	Luca
A	Aiden
J	Joseph

	Name
D	David
J	Jacob
L	Logan
L	Luke
J	Julian
G	Gabriel
G	Grayson
W	Wyatt
M	Matthew
M	Maverick

	Name
D	Dylan
I	Isaac
E	Elias
A	Anthony
T	Thomas
J	Jayden
C	Carter
S	Santiago
E	Ezekiel
C	Charles

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Level 77

May 23, 2013

I wonder if this list counts all of the jacked up spelling variations that evil parents like to impart on their children.

Level ∞

May 9, 2015

No, the SSA lists each spelling separately.

Level 62

May 16, 2016

If spelling variations are listed separately, do you combine them for the quiz? And if not, why do you accept variations for answers?

Level ∞

May 12, 2019

No they are not combined. We accept alternate spellings because people like it that way.

Level 80

May 19, 2023

I know three kids named Matteo. Never occurred to me to try Mateo.

Level 67

May 20, 2023

Where would Muhammad rank if all of its spelling variations were considered as the same name?

Level 79

May 11, 2016

Totally, names should never have an apostrophe or two y's

Level 65

May 11, 2016

My Arabic friend has an apostrophe in his name.

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Level 67

Jun 13, 2019

O'Connor ?

Level 66

May 25, 2021

>>Totally, names should never have an apostrophe or two y's

>My Arabic friend has an apostrophe in his name.

Why? Why?

Level 60

Jul 27, 2022

in the Arabic language, there are sounds that cannot easily be transcribed in the Roman alphabet... I can think of 2 Arabic letters that are sometimes transcribed as an apostrophe.

Level 27

May 23, 2013

Less odd names than by girls, but also less fantasy (no that doesn't have to be the same ;))

Level 33

May 23, 2013

Angel is a boys' name? o.O

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Level 75

May 12, 2015

It is a popular Spanish name for boys.

Level 84

May 13, 2015

Hi, I'm Angel, and yes, I'm a boy (or more accurately, a grown man).

Level 28

Aug 29, 2021

To me, angel sounds more like a girl’s name

Level 67

May 20, 2023

Well, now everybody's going to change it.

Level 85

Aug 7, 2017

Angels, in Christianity at least, are ALWAYS referred to as male. Angels are never referred to in any other gender (feminine, or neuter). Furthermore, the only named angels in the bible are also males: Michael, Gabriel, and Lucifer. Hey - maybe some day Lucifer will catch on! "Just call me Lucy!"

Level 76

May 9, 2020

Well, it is the name of the cat in Cinderella ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

but you're probably referring to people

Level 74

Dec 12, 2020

Why would you name your child satan?

Level 34

Nov 2, 2020

Yes, an if I am not mistaken, a girl is named Angela?

Level 85

May 9, 2022

Yes, but note that the masculine form of that name, Angel, is given to boys, most commonly in the Hispanic community. It might be used in other cultures as well.

Level 52

Apr 2, 2015

I just started by picking names of the boys I've had in daycare the last two years and then names of boys from my daughters classes and their friends. All these kids were born between 08 and 14. Just from that I got 40 my first time out. not to bad. :)

Level 51

May 12, 2015

can;t lie, i have a michael, daniel and joshua...

Level 47

May 10, 2016

There is probably a connection between me being terrible at remembering people's names and my doing so poorly on this quiz. ha.

Level 65

May 10, 2016

Ugh, I hate all these new names. Mason? Is that a name?

Level 75

May 10, 2016

It might have evolved from the surname.

Level 82

May 14, 2017

There are quite a lot of English names from surnames, and not even just modern inventions.

Level 82

May 10, 2016

No doubt part of the New World Order's conspiracy to control the world and gloat about it while doing so.

Level 82

Sep 11, 2016

Apparently it's been around for a while now, though it's rise to popularity was very recent. It certainly sounds like it should be a surname to me, but whatever, it's a free country. That said, my tolerance is stretched to breaking point by Jayden and its variants. That one is definitely a nonsense modern invention.

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Level 72

Jun 20, 2019

Why is it being a modern invention a bad thing? language changes, so do the names we use. I'm not a fan of naming your kid apple like Chris Martin or Moonunit like Frank Zappa, but I don't see any issue with naming your kid Jayden just because it doesn't have a long history.

Level 85

Aug 7, 2017

It's probably from the surname, which in turn is from the occupation - or perhaps the Illuminati - but even as a given name it's been around quite a while. A few examples that come to mind are Mason Williams ("Classical Gas"), Mason Adams (character actor and voice over artist), and Mason Reese (child actor) - all from 50 or more years ago.

Level 67

Jun 13, 2019

it has been around as a given name, from atleast the 1800s.

And I find surnames used as given names often sound very silly aswell.. though I never looked at mason as coming from a surname. Now that I think about it, it obviously does, and comes from a profession.

Level 75

May 10, 2016

Funny story: My Economics teacher once had a student whose name was spelled "La-a", and he was like "uh, is there someone named Laa in this class or is it a mistake?" so everyone in the class was like "there's no one named Laa in here", but finally this one girl said that she wasn't called on, and my teacher said "okay, what's your name?" and she said "LaDasha". You were supposed to pronounce the dash. I don't know if he was telling the truth, but I still found it funny.

Level 76

Aug 1, 2017

i heard of parents who just put - on the birth certificate and the child was legally called Dash

Level 65

May 12, 2018

I’ve seen “Na-a” (Nadasha)

Level 74

Dec 12, 2020

You see Americans, that's why it's good to have a law concerning what names you are aloud to give your kid. We have that in Austria and I haven't ever met a Dash or a Jayden or a Jaxson or any other such nonsense.

Level 52

May 22, 2023

I've heard stories about La-a or A-a so many times I'm convinced it's an urban legend

Level 89

May 10, 2016

What? No Jacks? This is blasphemy! This is madness! This.... is.... JETPUNK!!!

Level 65

May 11, 2016

Level 89

May 23, 2021

Yeesh... this is hard to look at. That meme was outdated even in 2016.

Level 56

Jun 3, 2016

Like with many US based quizzes, I did badly here (I'm British). Here I think biblical names are popular as well, but also royal names. So we have lots of Edwards, Charles and Harrys.

Level 68

Sep 18, 2016

I think people should be careful before dissing names.

Level 74

Dec 12, 2020

I think people should be careful before naming their child the first name that enters their mind and simply changing it to have more Xs and Ys. My name is Maxx, this is my brother Jaxxon, my sister Jyssyca and my cousin Jaydyn.

Level 73

Oct 30, 2017

I believe there is some research supporting the theory that naming your child something unique affects their career prospects.

I personally can't imagine a political or business leader named Jayden or Swayde

Level 74

Dec 12, 2020

There is a lot of research that shows, that HR is much more likely to hire someone with a historical name than someone with a name where your wondering if you are looking at the name or at the social security number, jk. This was tested by giving great numbers of different HR two identical CVs and only changing the name.

Level ∞

May 12, 2023

Has this passed replication? Sadly there has been a lot of shoddy social sciences research in the past few decades. Quite often, when researchers try to replicate one of these studies, they find there is no effect at all.

Level 41

May 20, 2023

Some results differ from old studies because we have made progress in fighting racist practices. A happy face for your innocence : )

Is Gertrude old? Is Sally a girl? Will Rainbow be happy on the assembly line? No Binion Horseshoe craps dealer in 1980 had that name badge.

Level 68

May 23, 2021

I always have thought that parents ought to envision themselves meeting an adult with the name they have in mind. Might be a cute name for a baby, but can you picture an adult introducing themselves as 'Miracle'? (actual name that my cousin gave their daughter).

Level 83

Jan 10, 2024

If true, that's more a problem of unprofessional biases by employers than of parents, surely?

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Level 62

Nov 17, 2017

Thank god the Aiden/Jayden/Brayden fad is over. It looks like that cancer is gone by 2016

Level 84

May 12, 2022

You do realize that those people given those names don't just disappear after they are born? I talk to people with those names almost every week. They're going to be here awhile!

Level 43

Apr 16, 2018

in 20 years kids are going to be named things like "Ryker", "Londynn", and "Lakynn"

Level ∞

May 11, 2021

At the time of your comment, Ryker was already a somewhat common baby name.

Level 64

May 23, 2021

In 2020, 231 girls in the US were named Londynn, 22 were named Lakynn, and there were 2457 boys named Ryker. We probably can't even imagine the names that will be used twenty years from now!

Level 88

May 18, 2018

GAHHH! I can't believe I, Loganite, missed Logan. :(

Level 88

Oct 4, 2020

*Facepalm* Did it again... Maybe I'll try again in two years.

Level 88

May 11, 2022

Got it this time! *phew*

Level 32

Jun 3, 2023

what the, my man actually came back every 2 years

Level 89

Sep 2, 2018

With the popularity of idiotic cartoon movies (laughable CGI) from comic books, I'm expecting a bunch of fan boys insisting on naming their night of drunken sex after those characters. Groot sounds like he won't get tormented in school, does he?

Level 67

Jun 13, 2019

Some people have officialy tried to name their kids thing like sex fruit... in several cases the court got involved and the were forbidden to use the name, but many (some countries are way more strict than others ) very weird ones got through, (like paycheck...)

Level 74

Dec 12, 2020

Jesus christ, it's your child, do you hate your child???

Level 48

Jan 17, 2019

I'm sorry I have this knowledge now

Level 67

Jun 13, 2019

Hardly anything changes> First jayden goes out en matthew in, then aiden out oliver in (ow and logan out and lucas in). Matthew out again and logan in again. And the last year no name changes.

=>Jayden <=Matthew

=>Aiden, Logan <=Oliver, Lucas

=>Matthew <=Logan

Level 73

May 11, 2021

Having three small boys really helped with this one--I just ran through the names of all their classmates.

Level 65

May 23, 2021

The child tortures you with crabbiness, endless diapers, etc. You torture him with a dumb name. The cycle repeats itself once again. 50 years ago Johnny Cash wrote a song about a guy getting a dumb name from his parents and any 90-year-old named Eugene knows that parents often miss the mark in baby naming. So it's not getting worse. And it's still funny.

Level 68

May 26, 2021

Got them all with 3 seconds to go!

Level 73

Jun 29, 2021

Interesting that the top boys name has been Taken for several years in a row.

Level 63

May 9, 2022

I see what you did there.

Level 95

May 9, 2022

Maverick?! To quote Kelly McGillis in Top Gun, "Did your mother not like you?"

Level ∞

May 12, 2023

Sadly, there are no babies named Goose or Iceman on record.

Level 81

May 15, 2023

I think the former is listed under Gosling until they turn 18.

Level 69

May 20, 2023

This comment deserves more likes.

Level 73

Jun 2, 2022

Just keeping track of adds and drops:

2014: Add Aaron, Oliver. Drop Brayden, Gavin.

2015: Add Charles, Grayson. Drop Aaron and Eli

2016: Add Aaron, Lincoln, Thomas. Drop Charles, Jonathan, Landon

2017: Add Charles, Mateo. Drop Christian, Hunter

2018: Add Asher, Leo, Theodore. Drop Aaron, Charles, Isiah

2019: Add Ezra, Hudson, Josiah. Drop Caleb, Nathan, Ryan

2020: Add Charles, Maverick. Drop Andrew Joshua

2021: Add Elias, Luca. Drop Christopher, Jaxon

Level ∞

May 12, 2023

2022: Add Santiago, Ezekiel. Drop Josiah, Lincoln.

Despite the complaints about newfangled baby names, there actually isn't a ton of turnover year to year.

Level 61

Jun 4, 2022

It should be illegal to name your kid Maverick

Level 66

Jun 4, 2022

I know a Maverick, born in early 2000's before the name was popular.

Level 76

Aug 26, 2022

Maverick, huh? Well, I guess the human race had a good run.

Level 73

May 12, 2023

I have a friend named Maverick and I considered it and thought “there’s no way it would be on this list”

Level 75

Nov 7, 2022

Surprised Asher is so common over there. I'm from UK and don't know a single Asher besides me

Level ∞

May 12, 2023

It's not that uncommon. In 2020, Asher was the 189th most common baby name in England and Wales.

Level 28

May 20, 2023

My name (James) is on this and I’m British?

Level 79

May 20, 2023

Yes?

Level 77

May 20, 2023

I mean, just because a name is popular in the US doesn't mean it's off-limits for other countries.

Level 79

May 20, 2023

How could you look at your beautiful baby boy and name him "Maverick"? Of all the unique and beautiful names in this world...how could that word be the one you curse your child with as a name??

These children have to actually live and have an identity with that name. Kids aren't an accessory or a chance to show how eCcEnTrIc YOU are as a parent. They have to get jobs in the real world, and they WILL be discriminated against for some of these stupid names. Ugh. I don't know why this bugs me so badly, but man it does.

Level 53

May 20, 2023

santiago maverick and ezekiel?? come on

Level 73

May 31, 2023

Half of all the names begin with either E, J, L, or M. Not sure why I thought that was noteworthy, but here we are.

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