Name Legacy

Baby names in Michigan, 2020s

2020–2025 · 467,514 recorded births

Noah was the most common name given in Michigan across the 2020s, with 2,938 births in the decade. The state recorded 467,514 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Michigan 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
Zahraa7313×
Mahdi17112×
Hussein17611×
Haidar36
Abbas105
Mohamad109
Jawad89
Raneem34

Top 25 in the 2020s

RankNameBirths
#1Noah2,938
#2Oliver2,783
#3Charlotte2,585
#4Henry2,527
#5Theodore2,477
#6Liam2,425
#7Amelia2,379
#8Olivia2,281
#9Elijah2,126
#10Sophia2,013
#11Ava1,976
#12Jack1,972
#13Emma1,957
#14Benjamin1,956
#15Hudson1,933
#16Levi1,931
#17James1,899
#18Evelyn1,882
#19William1,853
#20Owen1,821
#21Lucas1,819
#22Harper1,637
#23Eleanor1,551
#24Mason1,544
#25Lincoln1,533

Other decades in Michigan

All Michigan 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