2022 Top Baby Names: NY Parents Still Love Liam, Olivia, Emma

NEW YORK — When babies born in New York last year graduate from high school around the year 2040, you may hear the names Olivia and Liam often repeated as the graduates walk across the stage to receive their diplomas.

Liam and Olivia are the top names that New York parents chose for their babies in 2022, according to the Social Security Administration, which this month released its top baby names by state analysis.

In all, 919 girls born in our state last year were named Olivia, while 1,453 boys were named Liam, records showed.

Here are the top 10 female names in our state last year:

1. Olivia (919)
2. Emma (864)
3. Sophia (808)
4. Mia (772)
5. Charlotte (737)
6. Isabella (713)
7. Ava (710)
8. Amelia (672)
9. Luna (549)
10. Leah (544)

These were the top 10 male names in 2022 in our state:

1. Liam (1,453)
2. Noah (1,254)
3. Lucas (844)
4. Joseph (731)
5. Jacob (695)
6. Oliver (695)
7. Ethan (691)
8. Michael (649)
9. David (629)
10. Benjamin (623)

Liam and Olivia have claimed the top spot for baby names in New York each year since 2019.

The top names that jumped the highest last year: Oliver (No. 10 in 2021 to No. 6 in 2022) and David (No. 15 in 2021 to No. 9 in 2022).

Nationally, the top names for babies in 2022 were, for girls:

1. Olivia
2. Emma
3. Charlotte
4. Amelia
5. Sophie
6. Isabella
7. Ava
8. Mia
9. Evelyn
10. Luna

For boys, the top names were:

1. Liam
2. Noah
3. Oliver
4. James
5. Elijah
6. William
7. Henry
8. Lucas
9. Benjamin
10. Theodore

The top three names for both girls and boys last year were unchanged from 2021.

The Social Security Administration started releasing the annual list in 1997, with names dating back to 1880. The agency also notes that popular culture influences baby names.

Over the past 100 years, the male name Michael has held the top spot most often, at 44 times, while the female name Mary has been ranked No. 1 in 35 years over the same period.