These were the most popular baby names in Colorado in 2023: Social Security
DENVER (KDVR) — If you named your baby Charlotte or Liam, it might be time to start thinking of nicknames.
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The Social Security Administration released the 100 most popular baby names in Colorado in 2023. Some names were significantly more popular in the state than others, like the name Liam, which was chosen as the name for 359 babies last year, and Charlotte, which is now the name of 288 babies in Colorado.
Top baby names in Colorado 2023
Here are the top 10 out of the 100 most common baby names in Colorado from last year:
Rank | Male name | Number of | Female name | Number of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Liam | 359 | Charlotte | 288 |
2 | Oliver | 324 | Olivia | 265 |
3 | Noah | 268 | Sophia | 212 |
4 | Theodore | 256 | Emma | 211 |
5 | Henry | 253 | Amelia | 200 |
6 | Mateo | 227 | Mia | 200 |
7 | William | 205 | Evelyn | 187 |
8 | James | 191 | Isabella | 174 |
9 | Jack | 184 | Harper | 169 |
10 | Benjamin | 182 | Ava | 153 |
The top names in Colorado in 2022 were Oliver and Olivia, while the names changed slightly in 2023, there are a few names that have been consistently popular in the Centennial State.
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The names Emma and James have been popular in the state for years.
Emma became popular in Colorado during the 2000s and it’s continually in the top 10 most common names. Meanwhile, the name James was popular for 30 years between the 1960s through the end of the 1980s in Colorado, then made a reappearance from 2020 into 2023.
Meanwhile, the list of the most common baby names in the U.S. is slightly different than Colorado’s, but not if you named your child Liam or Olivia in 2023. These two names were the most popular in the nation for the fifth year in a row.
The full list of the 100 top names in each state in 2023 can be found on the Social Security Administration’s website.
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