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Baby names in Wisconsin, 2020s

2020–2025 · 266,186 recorded births

Oliver was the most common name given in Wisconsin across the 2020s, with 1,954 births in the decade. The state recorded 266,186 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Wisconsin 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
Croix60
Laverda5
Lavern21
Jordy100
Luella128
Leopold45
Cashton83
Loretta143

Top 25 in the 2020s

RankNameBirths
#1Oliver1,954
#2Henry1,826
#3Liam1,730
#4Theodore1,710
#5Charlotte1,602
#6Noah1,433
#7Olivia1,384
#8Evelyn1,319
#9Levi1,297
#10William1,283
#11Jack1,275
#12Emma1,271
#13Amelia1,270
#14Owen1,244
#15Hudson1,142
#16James1,116
#17Leo1,103
#18Eleanor1,101
#19Nora1,084
#20Sophia1,069
#21Harper1,027
#22Ava1,011
#23Wyatt987
#24Jackson986
#25Elijah979

Other decades in Wisconsin

All Wisconsin 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