Names That Peaked In 2022
These names hit their all-time highest U.S. ranking in 2022 and have never ranked as high since — the sound of that moment, frozen in the data. (The #1 names that year were Olivia and Liam — reigning champions usually peak in a different year than they reign.)
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,190#31 | Down 9 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 8,605#16 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 5,644#32 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 7,456#28 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 6,225#22 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 3,789#91 | Down 5 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 6,076#27 | Down 13 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 5,091#61 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 3,768#93 | Steady | 2022 | |||
| 4,763#44 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 2,417#151 | Up 13 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 3,792#60 | Up 32 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 2,634#97 | Down 13 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 4,204#78 | Up 128 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 3,139#111 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 2,326#116 | Down 12 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,116#306 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 2,239#164 | Up 35 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,179#266 | Down 42 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 2,077#141 | Up 40 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 982#308 | Up 26 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 2,023#145 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,069#287 | Up 44 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 2,111#138 | Up 26 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,432#212 | Up 5 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 943#348 | Up 14 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 808#393 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,746#176 | Up 2 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 715#433 | Up 65 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,198#258 | Down 54 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 932#329 | Down 94 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 684#456 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 732#426 | Down 111 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,046#325 | Up 33 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,415#217 | Up 87 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,160#289 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,331#231 | Up 129 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 933#354 | Down 71 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,215#253 | Up 29 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 739#432 | Down 29 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 640#480 | Up 118 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 411#666 | Up 7 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 534#562 | Down 69 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,063#288 | Steady | 2022 | |||
| 688#454 | Down 34 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 363#749 | Down 119 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 551#544 | Down 53 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 507#579 | Down 54 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 364#747 | Up 56 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 591#510 | Down 53 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 445#631 | Down 29 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 607#498 | Up 34 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 603#491 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 965#341 | Up 7 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 503#585 | Up 291 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 708#445 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 572#522 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 311#803 | Down 128 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 718#432 | Down 28 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 476#614 | Down 132 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 797#400 | Up 42 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 448#645 | Up 53 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 554#545 | Down 173 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 297#832 | Up 84 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 256#923 | Up 106 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 383#727 | Up 31 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 254#997 | Down 125 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 233#1,058 | Up 30 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 327#834 | Down 121 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 372#735 | Up 85 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 252#1,002 | Down 81 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 256#987 | Down 232 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 445#630 | Down 82 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 217#1,026 | Down 247 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 459#634 | Up 107 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 223#1,084 | Down 140 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 235#1,052 | Up 205 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 338#807 | Up 81 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 218#1,024 | Up 88 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 309#869 | Up 33 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 296#836 | Up 31 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 181#1,157 | Up 5 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 195#1,189 | Down 223 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 345#787 | Up 343 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 163#1,231 | Down 296 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 341#797 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 191#1,122 | Down 196 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 286#853 | Up 47 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 204#1,066 | Up 35 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 185#1,144 | Up 55 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 150#1,297 | Down 233 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 107#1,590 | Down 724 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 142#1,511 | Down 518 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 194#1,109 | Up 486 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 190#1,125 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 215#1,030 | Up 281 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 177#1,168 | Up 124 rank positions in five years | 2022 |
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How this list is built
A name “peaked” in 2022 when that year holds its best-ever position in the national rankings — rank, not raw count, because raw counts track how many babies were born and would pile every “peak” into the boom years. To qualify, a name must have reached the top 1,000 at its height and have at least 500 all-time applications. Lists are ordered by that peak rank.
Ranks come from U.S. births, counted separately for girls and boys. “Unranked” today means fewer than 5 applications in the latest year — uncommon, never invalid.