The most common names of people born in the District of Columbia

Social Security has recorded about 1.5 million births in the District of Columbia since 1910 under names it lists. By our estimate, about 1.1 million of those people are alive today, and their average age is 51. The most common names among them are Mary for women and Michael for men.

These are the names of people born in the District of Columbia, wherever they live now. Social Security records state of birth, not where people live, so people who moved to the District of Columbia from elsewhere aren't counted here, and people born here who moved away are.

Women and girls born in D.C.

Most common names of living women born in the District of Columbia
#	Name	Alive today	Average age
1	Mary	11,000	68
2	Patricia	8,100	71
3	Elizabeth	6,900	53
4	Linda	6,700	71
5	Karen	6,300	64
6	Barbara	6,200	75
7	Jennifer	6,000	50
8	Susan	5,800	68
9	Deborah	5,600	68
10	Lisa	5,300	59
11	Michelle	4,700	53
12	Sharon	4,700	68
13	Margaret	4,500	62
14	Kimberly	4,300	51
15	Donna	3,900	68
16	Angela	3,800	56
17	Kathleen	3,800	65
18	Cynthia	3,800	64
19	Katherine	3,700	47
20	Nancy	3,700	71
21	Pamela	3,600	66
22	Sandra	3,600	70
23	Sarah	3,600	45
24	Stephanie	3,600	51
25	Catherine	3,400	57
26	Laura	3,300	56
27	Carol	3,300	73
28	Jessica	3,100	41
29	Carolyn	3,100	69
30	Jacqueline	3,100	61

Men and boys born in D.C.

Most common names of living men born in the District of Columbia
#	Name	Alive today	Average age
1	Michael	23,000	56
2	John	20,000	59
3	James	19,000	58
4	Robert	17,000	62
5	William	16,000	57
6	David	16,000	56
7	Christopher	10,000	46
8	Charles	9,600	57
9	Thomas	9,400	58
10	Joseph	9,000	55
11	Anthony	8,400	50
12	Richard	8,200	64
13	Kevin	8,100	49
14	Daniel	7,300	46
15	Mark	6,400	58
16	Matthew	5,900	42
17	Brian	5,800	50
18	Andrew	5,500	44
19	Eric	5,400	50
20	Paul	5,400	60
21	Kenneth	5,300	59
22	Steven	5,200	57
23	Gregory	5,100	57
24	Stephen	5,000	60
25	Ronald	5,000	63
26	George	4,700	59
27	Timothy	4,600	55
28	Edward	4,500	59
29	Jeffrey	4,200	56
30	Jonathan	4,000	42

Average ages here are for people with the name born in the District of Columbia, not the national average.

Names more common in D.C. than nationally

Among living people born in the District of Columbia, these names make up a bigger share than they do nationwide. Lashawn is 15.5× as common among people born here as among all Americans.

Names more common among people born in the District of Columbia than nationally
#	Name	Vs. national	Alive today	Average age
1	Lashawn	15.5×	620	50
2	Donnell	12.4×	620	47
3	Antoine	7.4×	740	42
4	Tyrone	7.1×	1,900	56
5	Reginald	6.3×	2,100	56
6	Darnell	6.2×	670	48
7	Tamika	5.9×	520	45
8	Jamal	5.8×	740	36
9	Maurice	5.5×	1,700	52
10	Andre	5.4×	2,600	48
11	Carlton	5.3×	600	60
12	Patrice	5.1×	620	53
13	Ebony	5.1×	780	41
14	Darryl	4.3×	1,300	56
15	Bernard	4.3×	1,200	63

The newest D.C. babies

The most popular names for babies born in the District of Columbia in 2025, with the average age of everyone in the US who has each name.

Girls

Top girl names of 2025 in the District of Columbia
#	Name	Born 2025	Avg. age, US
1	Emma	36	20
2	Sophia	36	16
3	Charlotte	34	30
4	Lucy	31	28
5	Zoe	31	16
6	Eleanor	30	30
7	Ava	29	14
8	Sofia	29	14
9	Amelia	27	16
10	Olivia	27	18

Boys

Top boy names of 2025 in the District of Columbia
#	Name	Born 2025	Avg. age, US
1	Noah	58	16
2	Theodore	53	29
3	Henry	49	34
4	Liam	49	11
5	William	43	51
6	James	37	54
7	Charles	34	54
8	John	34	55
9	Mateo	34	8
10	George	33	57

About these numbers

Social Security publishes names by state of birth for births from 1910 on, listing a name only when at least five babies of the same sex got it in the state that year, so rare names are missing. We estimate how many of those babies are alive with SSA's national cohort life tables (there are no state tables), and count a name as a girls' or boys' name by which sex has more living people born here. “Vs. national” compares the name's share of living people born in the District of Columbia with its share of all living Americans in the national records. How we calculate this