Utah's most popular baby names for 2025 births were Emma and Oliver, according to the Social Security Administration's state-by-state data released in May 2026. The full Utah top five:
| Rank | Girls | Boys |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emma | Oliver |
| 2 | Charlotte | Liam |
| 3 | Lucy | Theodore |
| 4 | Olivia | Jack |
| 5 | Evelyn | Noah |
Source: SSA, Top 5 Baby Names by State for Births in 2025. SSA says the source is "a 100% sample based on Social Security card application data as of March 2026."
This page is the Provo.com names page, refreshed once a year when SSA publishes. The data year is 2025: these are babies born in calendar 2025. The 2026 list is expected in spring 2027.
How Utah's list differs from America's
SSA's national announcement on May 8, 2026 named Olivia and Liam the top names in the country for the seventh year in a row. Set the two lists side by side and Utah's character shows.
| Rank | United States (girl, boy) | Utah (girl, boy) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Olivia, Liam | Emma, Oliver |
| 2 | Charlotte, Noah | Charlotte, Liam |
| 3 | Emma, Oliver | Lucy, Theodore |
| 4 | Amelia, Theodore | Olivia, Jack |
| 5 | Sophia, Henry | Evelyn, Noah |
What stands out:
- Lucy and Jack. Neither is in the national top ten for 2025, and both are in Utah's top five. Lucy is third in Utah.
- Noah sits lower here. Second in the nation, fifth in Utah.
- Theodore runs higher. Third in Utah, fourth nationally.
- Charlotte agrees everywhere. Second nationally and second in Utah. SSA noted that Charlotte's climb to second ended Emma's six-year run in that spot on the national list. In Utah, Emma went the other way, up to first.
- Some national top-ten names don't appear in Utah's top five at all, including Mateo, which SSA ranked eighth nationally for boys.
A nearby comparison helps too. SSA's 2025 tables put Idaho's top boys' name as Oliver (with Theodore second and Henry third) and its top girls' name as Charlotte. Arizona looks like the national list, led by Olivia and Liam, with Mateo and Santiago in its boys' top five. Utah's list resembles its northern neighbor more than its southern one.
The Utah top five over time
SSA's state pages go back decades. These are Utah's top fives in selected years, each taken from SSA's "Top 5 Baby Names by State" page for that year.
| Year | Utah girls | Utah boys |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Emma, Charlotte, Lucy, Olivia, Evelyn | Oliver, Liam, Theodore, Jack, Noah |
| 2024 | Olivia, Charlotte, Emma, Amelia, Evelyn | Oliver, Liam, Henry, William, Jack |
| 2020 | Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia, Evelyn | Oliver, William, Liam, Jack, Henry |
| 2015 | Emma, Olivia, Charlotte, Evelyn, Harper | William, Oliver, James, Liam, Lincoln |
| 2010 | Olivia, Abigail, Sophia, Emma, Lily | William, Mason, Jacob, Ethan, James |
| 2005 | Emma, Emily, Olivia, Abigail, Hannah | Jacob, Ethan, Joshua, Samuel, Andrew |
| 2000 | Madison, Emily, Hannah, Abigail, Samantha | Jacob, Joshua, Ethan, Tyler, Zachary |
| 1990 | Jessica, Ashley, Amanda, Megan, Sarah | Michael, Joshua, Tyler, Matthew, Jordan |
| 1980 | Jennifer, Melissa, Amanda, Amber, Heather | Michael, Joshua, David, Jason, Matthew |
A few patterns are visible without reading too much into five-name lists:
- Emma, Olivia and Charlotte have traded the top three among them in most of the years shown since 2015, with Evelyn hanging on at fourth or fifth.
- Oliver has been the boys' anchor for the last several years shown, and William, Utah's top boys' name in 2010 and 2015, dropped out of the 2025 top five.
- Henry and Jack arrived in the 2020 list, and Theodore in 2025.
- The 1980s and 1990s lists look like the nation's of the time. Jennifer, Jessica, Michael and Joshua were national favorites too.
What Utah named its babies in 1912
Utah's own government does publish one kind of name ranking: from birth certificates that have turned 100. Birth certificates in Utah are private for 100 years (the Archives cites Utah Code 26B-8-125), and the Utah State Archives posts the top names each time a new year becomes public and is indexed. Its July 2025 post on 1912 certificates gives:
| Rank | Girls, 1912 | Boys, 1912 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mary | John |
| 2 | Helen | William |
| 3 | Ruth | George |
| 4 | Alice | James |
| 5 | Margaret | Joseph |
| 6 | Dorothy | Robert |
| 7 | Virginia | Charles |
| 8 | Florence | Harold |
| 9 | Edna | Frank |
| 10 | Edith | Albert |
Two of 1912's top boys' names kept turning up a century later: William was Utah's top boys' name in 2010 and 2015 and James appeared in the 2010 and 2015 top fives. On the girls' side, none of the 1912 top ten is in Utah's 2025 top five.
The Archives' Utah Birth Certificate Index is free to search and includes digital images, which makes it one of the easier family history starting points in the state. If you are researching an ancestor's name, our guide to family history centers in Utah Valley covers where to get help in person.
How to read these lists
SSA counts spellings separately. Its background notes say similar names are not combined, and give Caitlin, Caitlyn and Kaitlyn as separately ranked names. A name whose parents use many spellings can be more common than its rank shows.
Small names are hidden. To protect privacy, SSA leaves out names with fewer than five occurrences in any state or year. A truly one-of-a-kind name will never appear.
It is card applications, not birth certificates. SSA's lists come from Social Security card applications for U.S. births. That is a different source from the state's own birth records.
We publish the top five only. SSA's state tool goes to 100 names, but its search pages could not be read by our tools when we checked in October 2026, so we use the top-five tables SSA publishes as plain pages. When we can verify deeper Utah rankings, we will add them.
About the Utah County list you may have seen
In January 2026, the Deseret News reported a "most popular names in Utah County" list. The source is a Utah County pediatric practice's website, which publishes a top 40 but does not say where its data comes from (its own patients, hospital records or something else). Because we cannot check it, we do not reproduce it. If you want the official picture, the statewide SSA list above is it.
If you are naming a baby now
A few practical notes from Utah Valley:
- The name on the birth certificate is the name that sticks. It is the one on the Social Security card and, for Latter-day Saint families, the name the Church's handbook says should appear on the child's membership record after a baby blessing.
- Changing it later means court. Our legal name change guide for Utah County explains the process if a name needs fixing after the fact.
- The rest of the first year is covered in our new parent survival guide and the first six weeks postpartum guide.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources
The facts in this guide were checked against these sources. Hours, fees and rules change, so confirm anything time-sensitive with the source before you go. How we make Provo.com.
- Olivia and Liam Top America's Most Popular Baby Names (May 8, 2026 release), Social Security Administration. Checked October 20, 2026.
- Limitations of Names Data, Social Security Administration. Checked October 20, 2026.
- Background Information (Popular Baby Names), Social Security Administration. Checked October 20, 2026.
- 1912 Birth Certificates Indexed Online, and the Top Baby Names, Utah Division of Archives and Records Service. Checked October 20, 2026.
- Birth Records research guide, Utah Division of Archives and Records Service. Checked October 20, 2026.
- The most popular baby names in Utah County for 2025 (cited only to explain why we do not reproduce it), Deseret News. Checked October 20, 2026.
- Top 5 Baby Names by State for Births in 2025, Social Security Administration. Checked October 20, 2026.
- Top 5 Baby Names by State for Births in 2024, Social Security Administration. Checked October 20, 2026.
- Top 5 Baby Names by State for Births in 2020, Social Security Administration. Checked October 20, 2026.
- Top 5 Baby Names by State for Births in 2015, Social Security Administration. Checked October 20, 2026.
- Top 5 Baby Names by State for Births in 2010, Social Security Administration. Checked October 20, 2026.
- Top 5 Baby Names by State for Births in 2005, Social Security Administration. Checked October 20, 2026.
- Top 5 Baby Names by State for Births in 2000, Social Security Administration. Checked October 20, 2026.
- Top 5 Baby Names by State for Births in 1990, Social Security Administration. Checked October 20, 2026.
- Top 5 Baby Names by State for Births in 1980, Social Security Administration. Checked October 20, 2026.
