Meaning not yet researched.
Liam: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20,818 in 2025. Its best rank was #1 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99.8% of babies named Liam in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Liam: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20,818 boys in 2025. Peak: #1 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 22,252 (2024).
In 2025, 20,818 US boys were named Liam, making it the 1st most common boys’ name of the year, the same rank as in 2024. That is 1,434 fewer than the 22,252 boys named Liam in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1, reached in this year, 2025. The most boys given the name in a single year was 22,252, in 2024. For comparison, it was #2 in 2015 and #2,518 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Liam in 74 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 5 babies. In all, 359,085 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 174,261 babies named Liam.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 202,601 US boys were named Liam; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 22,252. In 2025 that was about 1 in 82 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Liam ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 51 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include William (4,215,725 babies since 1880), Lian (5,705 babies since 1880) and Lyam (2,077 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lem, Liem and Leeam are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Lem (1,297), Liem (742), Leeam (353), Leam (353), Liahm (164), Leiam (144), Liham (56), Liyam (45), Leium (42), Leum (42), Leim (40), Lium (31), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Liam in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so every state is listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 661 | #1 | #12 |
| Florida | 1,865 | #1 | #1 |
| Texas | 2,688 | #1 | #2 |
| Oklahoma | 232 | #1 | #4 |
| Nevada | 205 | #1 | #1 |
| Arkansas | 167 | #1 | #7 |
| New Jersey | 749 | #1 | #1 |
| Arizona | 437 | #1 | #2 |
| Nebraska | 149 | #1 | #3 |
| California | 2,624 | #1 | #9 |
| North Dakota | 56 | #1 | #1 |
| Colorado | 397 | #1 | #1 |
| Maryland | 463 | #1 | #7 |
| Virginia | 590 | #1 | #3 |
| Illinois | 690 | #1 | #2 |
| Pennsylvania | 566 | #2 | #2 |
| Connecticut | 241 | #2 | #4 |
| Delaware | 59 | #2 | #2 |
| Iowa | 185 | #2 | #1 |
| Indiana | 393 | #2 | #1 |
| Kentucky | 253 | #2 | #7 |
| Louisiana | 223 | #2 | #3 |
| Massachusetts | 446 | #2 | #6 |
| North Carolina | 680 | #2 | #4 |
| New Mexico | 109 | #2 | #3 |
| New York | 1,368 | #2 | #1 |
| Rhode Island | 64 | #2 | #2 |
| South Carolina | 271 | #2 | #6 |
| South Dakota | 60 | #2 | #3 |
| Tennessee | 425 | #2 | #7 |
| Utah | 227 | #2 | #4 |
| Washington | 403 | #2 | #2 |
| Hawaii | 42 | #3 | #2 |
| Oregon | 185 | #3 | #1 |
| Idaho | 106 | #4 | #1 |
| Kansas | 164 | #4 | #1 |
| Wisconsin | 274 | #4 | #3 |
| Alabama | 255 | #4 | #24 |
| District of Columbia | 49 | #4 | #16 |
| Minnesota | 277 | #4 | #4 |
| Ohio | 530 | #5 | #1 |
| Missouri | 284 | #6 | #1 |
| New Hampshire | 63 | #6 | #9 |
| Mississippi | 104 | #7 | #21 |
| Alaska | 31 | #8 | #1 |
| Michigan | 332 | #8 | #2 |
| West Virginia | 60 | #9 | #2 |
| Vermont | 20 | #10 | #1 |
| Montana | 39 | #11 | #2 |
| Wyoming | 16 | #11 | #1 |
| Maine | 41 | #12 | #1 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,829 | 20,818 | #1 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,087 | 22,252 | #1 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,617 | 20,904 | #1 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,106 | 20,579 | #1 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,567 | 20,424 | #1 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,231 | 19,865 | #1 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,613 | 20,631 | #1 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,399 | 19,977 | #1 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,960 | 18,874 | #1 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,573 | 18,277 | #2 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,153 | 18,410 | #2 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,512 | 18,488 | #2 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,936 | 18,153 | #3 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,813 | 16,824 | #6 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,942 | 13,450 | #15 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,085 | 10,933 | #30 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,454 | 8,567 | #49 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,490 | 5,982 | #75 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,539 | 5,141 | #89 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,322 | 4,514 | #98 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,447 | 4,152 | #104 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,659 | 3,827 | #112 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,775 | 3,565 | #114 |
| 2002 | — | — | 3,382 | #113 |
| 2001 | — | — | 3,029 | #131 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,332 | 2,781 | #140 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,957 | 2,709 | #141 |
| 1998 | — | — | 2,209 | #155 |
| 1997 | — | — | 2,112 | #162 |
| 1996 | — | — | 1,748 | #184 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,222 | 1,206 | #239 |
| 1994 | — | — | 668 | #360 |
| 1993 | — | — | 400 | #515 |
| 1992 | — | — | 305 | #590 |
| 1991 | — | — | 270 | #621 |
| 1990 | — | — | 277 | #605 |
| 1989 | — | — | 224 | #669 |
| 1988 | — | — | 171 | #719 |
| 1987 | — | — | 147 | #755 |
| 1986 | — | — | 152 | #734 |
| 1985 | — | — | 150 | #722 |
| 1984 | — | — | 145 | #724 |
| 1983 | — | — | 145 | #717 |
| 1982 | — | — | 156 | #697 |
| 1981 | — | — | 123 | #787 |
| 1980 | — | — | 114 | #826 |
| 1979 | — | — | 118 | #804 |
| 1978 | — | — | 112 | #809 |
| 1977 | — | — | 97 | #864 |
| 1976 | — | — | 70 | #996 |
| 1975 | — | — | 82 | #910 |
| 1974 | — | — | 72 | #966 |
| 1973 | — | — | 61 | #1,043 |
| 1972 | — | — | 63 | #1,019 |
| 1971 | — | — | 60 | #1,054 |
| 1970 | — | — | 49 | #1,188 |
| 1969 | — | — | 47 | #1,143 |
| 1968 | — | — | 54 | #1,012 |
| 1967 | — | — | 60 | #939 |
| 1966 | — | — | 47 | #1,083 |
| 1965 | — | — | 36 | #1,286 |
| 1964 | — | — | 38 | #1,271 |
| 1963 | — | — | 43 | #1,188 |
| 1962 | — | — | 24 | #1,653 |
| 1961 | — | — | 27 | #1,564 |
| 1960 | — | — | 24 | #1,674 |
| 1959 | — | — | 17 | #2,013 |
| 1958 | — | — | 24 | #1,623 |
| 1957 | — | — | 28 | #1,503 |
| 1956 | — | — | 18 | #1,917 |
| 1955 | — | — | 12 | #2,383 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #3,081 |
| 1950 | — | — | 10 | #2,518 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,046 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).