Name Legacy

Baby names in North Dakota, 2020s

2020–2025 · 36,380 recorded births

Oliver was the most common name given in North Dakota across the 2020s, with 332 births in the decade. The state recorded 36,380 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to North Dakota 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
Boy3481×
Girl2147×
Bridger7516×
Boden4510×
Briggs99
Hattie81
Riggs36
Etta29

Top 25 in the 2020s

RankNameBirths
#1Oliver332
#2Theodore274
#3Henry271
#4Liam269
#5Hudson261
#6Noah253
#7Evelyn242
#8Asher240
#8Olivia240
#10Amelia226
#11Maverick217
#12Brooks212
#13Jack211
#14James209
#15Harper208
#16Charlotte206
#17William199
#18Owen193
#19Emma192
#20Hazel185
#21Cooper182
#21Elijah182
#21Nora182
#24Leo179
#25Lincoln176

Other decades in North Dakota

All North Dakota 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