Name Legacy

Baby names in District of Columbia, 2020s

2020–2025 · 33,024 recorded births

Henry was the most common name given in District of Columbia across the 2020s, with 350 births in the decade. The state recorded 33,024 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to District of Columbia in the 2020s

Names given far more often here than nationally in these years. The multiplier is conservative — it is the low end of the plausible range, so a name carried by a handful of births does not outrank one carried by hundreds.

NameBirthsvs national
Zora34
Nasir65
Sincere42
Simone24
Simon90
Nina62
George158
Mahzi7

Top 25 in the 2020s

RankNameBirths
#1Henry350
#2Noah333
#3Liam320
#4James318
#4Theodore318
#6William307
#7Charlotte270
#8John240
#9Charles239
#10Benjamin230
#11Leo229
#11Olivia229
#13Ava220
#14Oliver217
#15Jack211
#16Emma202
#17Sophia196
#18Samuel190
#19Zoe188
#20Julian186
#21Alexander183
#21Ethan183
#23Maya180
#24Eleanor177
#25Elizabeth173

Other decades in District of Columbia

All District of Columbia names, 2025

Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. State records begin in 1910. Names given to fewer than five babies in a state in a year are withheld at source. namelegacy.org