Name Legacy

Baby names in Missouri

2025 · 52,110 recorded births

Oliver was the most common name given in Missouri in 2025, with 405 births. The state recorded 52,110 births across 1,967 distinct names that year.

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Names unique to Missouri in 2025

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

NameBirthsvs national
Menno1033×
Chet653×
Dariyah653×
Truman1418×
Canton553×
Creighton553×
Finnigan553×
Kymber553×
Quinnley553×
Maryn819×

Top 50 names in Missouri, 2025

RankNameBirths
#1Oliver405
#2Theodore393
#3Charlotte334
#4Noah331
#5Henry327
#6Amelia288
#7Hudson284
#7Liam284
#9Olivia260
#10William253
#11Eleanor248
#11James248
#13Bennett227
#13Evelyn227
#15Cooper222
#16Sophia211
#17Elijah210
#18Levi199
#18Waylon199
#20Emma196
#21Violet183
#21Willow183
#23Jack179
#24August176
#24Harper176
#26Samuel175
#27Benjamin174
#27Maverick174
#29Thomas173
#29Wyatt173
#31Ezra170
#32Aurora167
#33Carter166
#33John166
#35Nora164
#36Owen161
#37Weston158
#38Beau157
#39Michael155
#40Asher154
#40Elizabeth154
#42Jackson153
#42Lucas153
#44Charles152
#44Grayson152
#46Luke151
#46Rowan151
#48Miles149
#49Ava148
#49Ellie148

Missouri 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