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Baby names in Pennsylvania, 2020s

2020–2025 · 604,311 recorded births

Noah was the most common name given in Pennsylvania across the 2020s, with 4,308 births in the decade. The state recorded 604,311 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Pennsylvania 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
Benuel12619×
Barbie12817×
Mervin12110×
Malinda124
Fannie111
Suhaylah31
Mahlon88
Lavina75

Top 25 in the 2020s

RankNameBirths
#1Noah4,308
#2Liam3,829
#3Charlotte3,361
#4Olivia3,322
#5Emma3,140
#6Oliver3,097
#7Sophia2,876
#8Benjamin2,719
#9James2,707
#9Theodore2,707
#11Amelia2,692
#12Henry2,664
#13Lucas2,528
#14Owen2,517
#15Ava2,471
#16Michael2,442
#17Jack2,286
#18William2,232
#19Elijah2,215
#20Logan2,207
#21Harper2,185
#22Mason2,182
#23John2,171
#24Levi2,165
#25Joseph2,164

Other decades in Pennsylvania

All Pennsylvania 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