by Pamela Redmond Satran

　　Olivia has bumped Charlotte to become the Number 1 among Nameberry’s popular baby names for girls in 2016.

　　A Shakespearean name meaning “olive tree,” Olivia is Number 2 on the official lists for both the U.S. and England. While it’s unfailingly on the Nameberry Top 10, this is Olivia‘s first appearance at the head of the list.

　　Ezra continues its reign as the Number 1 boys’ name, a position the Biblical name meaning “help” first claimed last year. Ezra barely squeaked onto the official US Top 100 in 2015, but we predict it may take over for Noah at the top of the list within the decade.

　　Hottest New Names for Girls

　　The four top names for girls – Olivia, Amelia, Charlotte, and Ava – also held the top four places on our list in 2015, but five of the other six Top 10 names for girls are new: Isabella, Arabella, Aurora, Mia, and Adeline. Isla remains in the Top 10.

　　A is also the first initial of two other stylish girls’ making their first appearance on our top 100 list, Amara and Annabelle.  Other names worth watching that are new to our girls’ Top 100: Cecilia, Freya, Jade, Ophelia, and Willow.

　　The hottest names on the girls’ popularity list, with the number of places they’re up this year, are:

　　Sadie, +47

　　Elise, +47

　　Isabella, +39

　　Emilia, +35

　　Julia, +34

　　Astrid, +34

　　Thea, +27

　　Lydia, +27

　　Eloise, +27

　　Josephine, +23

　　Hottest New Names for Boys

　　On the boys’ side, the seven top-ranking names stay the same with only slight shifts in order. They are: Ezra, Asher, Declan, Atticus, Oliver, Milo, Silas. Numbers 8, 9, and 10 on the Top 10 are all new, with Jack, Levi, and Wyatt replacing Jude, Henry, and Jasper.

　　The boys’ names that have risen the furthest on the Top 100 include both masculine stalwarts and newcomers. With the number of places they’ve risen, the hottest boys’ names are:

　　Thomas, +67

　　Matthew, +58

　　John, +54

　　Xavier, +54

　　Aryan, +49

　　Maxwell, +45

　　Connor, +39

　　Elijah, +39

　　Julian, +35

　　Tobias, +34

　　There are some very interesting boys’ names new to the Nameberry Top 100 this year, notably Abel, Alistair, Bennett, Cassius, Harvey, Hugo, Killian, Knox, Landon, and Lucian.

　　Nameberry’s Popular Baby Names list measures which of our individual name pages received the most of our nearly 300 million page views in 2016. These names that attract the most interest from our visitors can reflect name trends and popularity in the years ahead. The full Top 100 for both genders are below and the Top 1000 can be found on our Popular Baby Names page.

　　Top 100 Names for Girls 2016

　　Olivia

　　Amelia

　　Charlotte

　　Ava

　　Isla

　　Isabella

　　Arabella

　　Aurora

　　Mia

　　Adeline

　　Penelope

　　Eleanor

　　Cora

　　Rose

　　Aria

　　Hazel

　　Violet

　　Luna

　　Claire

　　Emma

　　Alice

　　Thea

　　Maeve

　　Lucy

　　Imogen

　　Nora

　　Scarlett

　　Genevieve

　　Elizabeth

　　Audrey

　　Ophelia

　　Mila

　　Ella

　　Chloe

　　Esme

　　Sadie

　　Evangeline

　　Ivy

　　Astrid

　　Grace

　　Khaleesi

　　Eloise

　　Caroline

　　Aurelia

　　Lydia

　　Stella

　　Emily

　　Maya

　　Jane

　　Elise

　　Lila

　　Adelaide

　　Emilia

　　Maisie

　　Iris

　　Amara

　　Ellie

　　Clara

　　Beatrice

　　Sophia

　　Anna

　　Julia

　　Elodie

　　Mae

　　Harlow

　　Eliza

　　Isabel

　　Evelyn

　　Josephine

　　Zara

　　Seraphina

　　Jade

　　Willow

　　Zoe

　　Matilda

　　Sienna

　　Hannah

　　Madeline

　　Poppy

　　Abigail

　　Elsie

　　Ada

　　Phoebe

　　Willa

　　Mabel

　　Molly

　　Margaret

　　Eliana

　　Evie

　　Juliet

　　Freya

　　Naomi

　　Cecilia

　　Annabelle

　　Leah

　　Eva

　　Lily

　　Gemma

　　Daisy

　　Rebecca

　　Top 100 Names for Boys 2016

　　Ezra

　　Asher

　　Declan

　　Atticus

　　Oliver

　　Milo

　　Silas

　　Jack

　　Levi

　　Wyatt

　　Henry

　　Jasper

　　Leo

　　Elijah

　　Sebastian

　　Theodore

　　Caleb

　　Ethan

　　Matthew

　　Benjamin

　　Oscar

　　Bodhi

　　Eli

　　Xavier

　　Liam

　　Felix

　　Zachary

　　Miles

　　Jacob

　　William

　　Thomas

　　Austin

　　Alexander

　　Axel

　　Luke

　　Andrew

　　Julian

　　John

　　Nathaniel

　　Isaac

　　Aryan

　　Callum

　　Finn

　　Samuel

　　Soren

　　Roman

　　Luca

　　Maxwell

　　James

　　Daniel

　　Josiah

　　Isaiah

　　Tobias

　　Gabriel

　　Ronan

　　Charles

　　Nolan

　　Lincoln

　　Gideon

　　Harrison

　　Connor

　　Arthur

　　Beckett

　　Lachlan

　　Jonah

　　Harry

　　Wesley

　　Archer

　　Lucian

　　Grayson

　　Graham

　　Joseph

　　Hugo

　　Jude

　　Ryker

　　Owen

　　Nathan

　　Christian

　　Jackson

　　Simon

　　Landon

　　Kai

　　David

　　Griffin

　　Maddox

　　Alistair

　　Abel

　　Cassius

　　Lewis

　　Nicholas

　　Zane

　　Bennett

　　George

　　Theo

　　Louis

　　Vincent

　　Ryder

　　Knox

　　Killian

　　Harvey

　　Research by Esmeralda Rocha

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