See the most popular baby names in Kansas and Missouri for 2023. Is yours on the list?
From Aaliyah to Zane, you can now check out the most popular names in each state for 2023, according to the Social Security Administration.
The federal agency gave out 3,580,350 new Social Security cards to babies born in 2023. This is a 2.3% decrease from the year before.
In 2023, 67,058 babies were born in Missouri, with about half as many born in Kansas, according to provisional CDC data. Compared to 2022, that’s a decrease of 2.7% in Missouri — just above the national average — and approximately the same number of births from year to year in Kansas.
In the Social Security Administration data, different spellings are not combined, so Catherine, Katherine and Kathryn are all separate listings, for example. It also does not include information about nicknames or middle names.
Find out where your or your loved one’s names ranked on the Social Security Administration’s website.
Here are the most popular baby names for 2023 in Kansas, Missouri and the whole United States.
Kansas
Boys
Liam (172 babies)
Oliver
Noah
Theodore
Henry
Girls
Amelia (138 babies)
Charlotte
Olivia
Evelyn
Emma
Missouri
Boys
Oliver (355 babies)
Henry
Liam
Noah
Theodore
Girls
Charlotte (284 babies)
Olivia
Amelia
Eleanor
Harper
All of United States
Boys
Liam (20,802 babies)
Noah
Oliver
James
Elijah
Girls
Olivia (15,270 babies)
Emma
Charlotte
Amelia
Sophia
This story was originally published May 17, 2024 at 12:29 PM.
