Popular Names in Tennessee

Popular names in Tennessee for 2022 are headed by Olivia and Liam. These names also take the lead among the popular baby names 2022 nationally.

However, several of the names among Tennessee's Top 10 list rank lower on the national charts. On the girls' side, this includes Harper, Eleanor, Elizabeth, and Willow, and for boys, Hudson, John, and Asher rank higher than average in the Volunteer State.

Other names that are especially common in Tennessee include unisex names for girls such as Parker and Emery as well as classics like Mary and Margaret, and boy names ending in -er such as Sawyer, Walker, Tucker, and River. Many alternative spellings are favored over the original for baby girls in Tennessee. Journee is more common than Journey, Emersyn is more popular than Emerson, and Jordyn reigns over Jordan.

Knox, as in Knoxville, is more popular in Tennessee than the nation as a whole, and the same goes for Nash, as in Nashville.

To browse popular names lists from the US and around the world, visit our main Popular Names page. You might also want to browse Nameberry's real-time lists of Popular Girl Names 2022 and Popular Boy Names 2022.

For more local data, search the full lists of Popular Names by State.