{"id":78587,"date":"2025-12-22T23:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/78587\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T23:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:37:10","slug":"nycs-top-baby-names-of-2024-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/78587\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC’s top baby names of 2024 revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York City Health Department has unveiled the most popular baby names<\/a> across the five boroughs in 2024 \u2014 and those that made the top 10 list might cause you to scratch your head. <\/p>\n

Of the 65,222 babies born in the Big Apple last year, 722 of them were named Noah and 422 were given the name Mia. <\/p>\n

Liam and Emma<\/a>, two popular names that sat in the No. 1 spot since 2016 and 2017, were shockingly bumped down to second place in 2024, followed by Sophia and Ethan in third. <\/p>\n

\"TwoMany of the names that made this top 10 list didn\u2019t come as a total surprise. Monkey Business \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

David and Leah snagged fourth place while Lucas and Isabella rounded out the top 5. <\/p>\n

Muhammad, a 10th-place contender for boys\u2019 names, made the list by the skin of its teeth for the second year in a row. Considering it was the most common name given to baby boys in England and Wales in 2023<\/a>, it was only a matter of time before it surged in popularity in the Big Apple. <\/p>\n

\"AOld-fashioned names like Esther seemed to be all the rage last year. KOTO \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

The 10th-place holder for girls\u2019 names, Esther, wasn\u2019t a total shock since old-fashioned baby names seem to be back in fashion, apparently because of the nostalgia they evoke in people, according to experts. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think vintage names evoke a sense of nostalgia. I get a lot of clients who pull out their family tree, looking to grandparents and great-grandparents for name inspiration,\u201d Colleen Slagen, author of the book\u00a0\u201cNaming Bebe,\u201d told Yahoo! Life<\/a>. \u201c\u2026Nursing homes and graveyards would be great sources of name inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another 2024 trend the Health Department found was gender-neutral baby names like Angel, Riley, Cameron, Charlie, Jordyn, Jordan, Amari, Remy and Remi. <\/p>\n

\u201cEvery year, our list of the most popular baby names serves as a reminder of who we are as a city and who the next generation of New Yorkers will be,\u201d Acting Health Commissioner Dr. Michelle Morse said in a statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe love to see so many little New Yorkers bringing hope and joy into the city. As we enter the new year, we recommit ourselves to creating a New York City where our children can live long, healthy lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

NYC\u2019s top baby names of 2024:<\/p>\n

Mia, Noah<\/p>\n

Emma, Liam<\/p>\n

Sophia, Ethan<\/p>\n

Leah, David<\/p>\n

Isabella, Lucas<\/p>\n

Zoe, Jacob<\/p>\n

Olivia, Joseph<\/p>\n

Chloe, Aiden<\/p>\n

Sofia, Dylan<\/p>\n

Esther, Muhammad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York City Health Department has unveiled the most popular baby names across the five boroughs in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[39070,4207,232,57,9,24,56,63,65,64,233],"class_list":["post-78587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-baby-names","tag-children","tag-lifestyle","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}