Top 5 Baby Names – Then & Now

Chase Personti sleeps in the arms of his father, Corbin, in the NICU at West Boca Medical Center on Tuesday, May 9, 2023, in Boca Raton, Fla. Chase and Caden, not pictured, are twins who shared the same amniotic sac and placenta in utero, a type of high-risk pregnancy called mono-mono twins. After a premature birth, the twins spent several weeks in the NICU recovering but are now considered stable and expected to thrive.

The Social Security Administration just revealed the most popular baby names for 2025 and that got us to thinking how much things have changed since the 2000s!

We are Throwback 2K, after all, so we like to flash back!

We checked the records for the most popular baby names 25 years ago in 2000 – and NOT ONE of those names is on the list today!

Check them out:

2000 Most Popular Baby Names

Emily – Jacob
Hannah – Michael
Madison – Matthew
Ashley – Joshua
Sarah – Christopher

2025 Most Popular Baby Names

Olivia – Liam
Emma – Noah
Amelia – Oliver
Charlotte – Theodore
Mia – James

Wow, things sure have changed, right? Check out other years of the most popular names here!