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Baby names in Virginia, 2020s

2020–2025 · 432,987 recorded births

Liam was the most common name given in Virginia across the 2020s, with 3,507 births in the decade. The state recorded 432,987 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Virginia 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
Nolawi25
Virginia302
Mahsa26
Asra32
Haya55
Sultan69
Farhan34
Mohammad202

Top 25 in the 2020s

RankNameBirths
#1Liam3,507
#2Noah3,107
#3Charlotte2,715
#4James2,433
#5Olivia2,383
#6William2,366
#7Oliver2,329
#8Emma2,168
#9Henry2,108
#10Theodore2,007
#11Lucas1,959
#12Sophia1,941
#13Elijah1,908
#14Ava1,900
#15Amelia1,877
#16Benjamin1,700
#17Isabella1,638
#18John1,628
#19Levi1,623
#20Evelyn1,511
#21Jackson1,508
#22Elizabeth1,463
#23Mia1,439
#24Michael1,435
#25Owen1,423

Other decades in Virginia

All Virginia 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