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Baby names in Missouri, 2020s

2020–2025 · 312,099 recorded births

Oliver was the most common name given in Missouri across the 2020s, with 2,286 births in the decade. The state recorded 312,099 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Missouri 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
Petie1320×
Lovina37
Menno29
Saloma16
Fannie34
Truman56
Whitley160
Creed146

Top 25 in the 2020s

RankNameBirths
#1Oliver2,286
#2Charlotte1,885
#3Henry1,865
#4Theodore1,781
#5Liam1,775
#6Olivia1,770
#7Noah1,754
#8Amelia1,715
#9William1,651
#10James1,473
#11Hudson1,470
#12Elijah1,455
#13Emma1,419
#14Eleanor1,323
#15Evelyn1,307
#16Harper1,297
#17Sophia1,251
#18Benjamin1,243
#19Ava1,210
#20Owen1,186
#21Wyatt1,151
#22Jack1,147
#23Grayson1,115
#24Levi1,100
#25Asher1,094

Other decades in Missouri

All Missouri 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