Name Legacy

Baby names in South Dakota, 2020s

2020–2025 · 38,860 recorded births

Oliver was the most common name given in South Dakota across the 2020s, with 369 births in the decade. The state recorded 38,860 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to South 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
Kimimila1138×
Lennyn18
Bridger38
Jhett16
Huxley46
Brecken27
Briggs76
Colter87

Top 25 in the 2020s

RankNameBirths
#1Oliver369
#2Henry310
#3Liam297
#4Theodore274
#5Hudson270
#6Noah249
#7Charlotte248
#8Amelia241
#9William240
#10Evelyn233
#11Harper228
#12Emma226
#13Asher220
#13Olivia220
#15Maverick218
#16Jack205
#17Brooks201
#18James199
#19Nora194
#20Levi193
#21Ava192
#22Sawyer190
#23Leo186
#23Lincoln186
#23Owen186

Other decades in South Dakota

All South 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