Name Legacy

Baby names in Kentucky

2025 · 37,788 recorded births

Oliver was the most common name given in Kentucky in 2025, with 278 births. The state recorded 37,788 births across 1,601 distinct names that year.

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Names unique to Kentucky in 2025

Given far more often here than nationally last year. Names unique to Kentucky across the whole record →

NameBirthsvs national
Kainen673×
Addalynn573×
Lynnleigh573×
Mallorie573×
Mauwa573×
Brenleigh640×
Oakes634×
Novaleigh819×
Weller627×
Blakeley626×

Top 50 names in Kentucky, 2025

RankNameBirths
#1Oliver278
#2Liam253
#3Hudson229
#4Waylon223
#5Amelia212
#6Noah210
#7Henry191
#7Theodore191
#9Charlotte187
#10Elijah185
#11James181
#12William173
#13Asher171
#14Sophia166
#15Evelyn164
#16John163
#17Lainey160
#18Emma159
#19Grayson157
#19Levi157
#21Willow156
#22Ellie152
#23Eleanor149
#24Samuel148
#25Harper147
#26Lucas145
#27Cooper143
#28Maverick141
#28Olivia141
#30Carter138
#31Walker136
#31Weston136
#33Ezra129
#34Bennett128
#35Jackson127
#36Riley126
#37Ivy124
#38Ava123
#39Ella122
#40Wyatt121
#41Elizabeth119
#42Lincoln118
#43Benjamin117
#44Beau116
#44Owen116
#44Parker116
#47Michael115
#47Sawyer115
#49Joseph114
#49Rowan114

Kentucky by decade

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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