Name Legacy

Baby names in Tennessee, 2020s

2020–2025 · 403,366 recorded births

Liam was the most common name given in Tennessee across the 2020s, with 2,714 births in the decade. The state recorded 403,366 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Tennessee 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
Neyland14327×
Hendon2211×
Ryman3410×
Karas37
Holston42
Ladarius30
Mabry46
Kerolos7

Top 25 in the 2020s

RankNameBirths
#1Liam2,714
#2William2,474
#3Noah2,401
#4Oliver2,309
#5James2,289
#6Olivia2,092
#7Elijah2,044
#8Charlotte2,037
#9Amelia1,999
#10Henry1,916
#11Emma1,818
#12Hudson1,736
#13John1,707
#14Ava1,662
#15Harper1,599
#16Asher1,590
#17Levi1,584
#18Waylon1,568
#19Evelyn1,495
#20Samuel1,491
#21Jackson1,455
#22Grayson1,429
#23Theodore1,371
#24Wyatt1,369
#25Eleanor1,295

Other decades in Tennessee

All Tennessee 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