Which boy names have been most popular on Nameberry so far this year?

　　The big news in baby boy names: Asher is back on top, a spot he held in our 2011 popularity list but lost to Finn in 2012.  Finn is still enormously popular with Nameberry’s parents, holding onto the Number 2 spot, though longtime favorite Henry is slipping in our rankings for 2013.

　　New hottie among boy names on Nameberry: Declan, in the Number 3 spot, all the way up from Number 21 for 2012.  And August, at Number 35, was not even on the 2012 Top 100.

　　Django holds the Number 4 spot thanks the hit movie; it’s a cool name, but we don’t expect to see many baby Djangos.

　　The names we see leaping the furthest up the list include: Flynn, Dashiell, August, Nico, Bodhi, Gray,  and Frederick.  We can credit the new Pope for Francis squeaking onto the list at Number 100.

　　Our boy names popularity rankings are based on more than 8 million views of our names pages in the first half of 2013.  The Top 100 boy names on Nameberry so far this year are:

　　1.  Asher

　　2.  Finn

　　3.  Declan

　　4.  Django

　　5.  James

　　6.  Oliver

　　7.  Henry

　　8.  Atticus

　　9.  Owen

　　10. Milo

　　11. Emmett

　　12. Jasper

　　13. Jude

　　14. Ezra

　　15. Liam

　　16. Flynn

　　17. Felix

　　18. Levi

　　19. Miles

　　20. Sebastian

　　21. Leo

　　22. Silas

　　23. Luca

　　24. Noah

　　25. Aiden

　　26. Jack

　　27. William

　　28. Everett

　　29. Hudson

　　30. Ethan

　　31. Theodore

　　32. Dashiell

　　33. Jayden

　　34. Benjamin

　　35. August

　　36. Jacob

　　37. Dylan

　　38. Alexander

　　39. Nico

　　40. Eli

　　41. Caleb

　　42. Isaac

　　43. Christian

　　44. Beckett

　　45. Julian

　　46. Wyatt

　　47. Theo

　　48. Oscar

　　49. Zachary

　　50. Gabriel

　　51. Mason

　　52. Bodhi

　　53. Hugo

　　54. Nathaniel

　　55. Arlo

　　56. Micah

　　57. Max

　　58. Elijah

　　59. Michael

　　60. Samuel

　　61. Jonah

　　62. Thomas

　　63. Arthur

　　64. Andrew

　　65. Soren

　　66. Kieran

　　67. Rhys

　　68. John

　　69. Lucas

　　70. Callum

　　71. Simon

　　72. Logan

　　73. Zane

　　74. Tristan

　　75. Charles

　　76. Jackson

　　77. Xavier

　　78. Roman

　　79. Daniel

　　80. Ryder

　　81. Elias

　　82. Stellan

　　83. Archer

　　84. Gideon

　　85. Cole

　　86. Edward

　　87. Gray

　　88. Nolan

　　89. Grayson

　　90. Evan

　　91. Ryan

　　92. George

　　93. Nicholas

　　94. Frederick

　　95. Phineas

　　96. Nathan

　　97. Joseph

　　98. Harrison

　　99. Tobias

　　100. Francis

　　A note on the names here and in yesterday’s girls’ list that are sometimes also used for the other gender.  If a name is used 90 percent or more of the time for boys or girls, we claimed it for that gender, and so Nico and Luca, for instance, are on the boys’ list.  Names used less than 90 percent of the time for one gender or the other we consider unisex; tomorrow we’ll bring you the Top Unisex Names of 2013.

　　And as with the girls’ names, we are offering a prize to the first person who correctly guesses Boys’ Name Number 101.  From the Nameberry Store, you’ll have your choice of a child’s family tree, pictured here, or a personalized name graphic.  One guess per Berry and please don’t duplicate a previous guess as only the first one will win!