In a stunning upset, the ancient boys’ name Atticus has jumped to the top of Nameberry’s baby name popularity list for 2017.

　　Atticus is the Number 1 name for boys among the Most Popular Baby Names of 2017, with Olivia the top girls’ name for the second year in a row.

　　While girls’ names conventionally move up and down the fashion ladder more quickly, this year’s Nameberry list is more volatile on the boys’ side, with more new entries in the count of Top 1000 names and more names making dramatic shifts up or down the ladder

　　That’s evidence of a sea change in how parents choose names for their sons, moving away from family names and traditional male choices and judging boys’ names the same way they do girls’, with style the driving factor.

　　Nameberry’s popular names list measures which names attract the largest share of our nearly 250 million page views, versus how many babies actually receive that name. It’s a gauge of parents’ interest in baby names and a predictor of which names will become more popular in the future.

　　Three new names vaulted onto the Top Ten this year for each gender: Cora, Maia, and Amara for girls, and Theodore, Jasper, and Henry for boys. Maia is the most surprising newcomer to the group, also new to the Nameberry Top 100 and on the US Top 1000 for only a decade.

　　Here is the complete Top Ten baby names for each gender.

　　2017 Top Ten Names for Girls

　　Olivia

　　Cora*

　　Amelia

　　Charlotte

　　Isla

　　Isabella

　　Maia*

　　Aurora

　　Amara*

　　Ava

　　2017 Top Ten Names for Boys

　　Atticus

　　Asher

　　Jack

　　Theodore*

　　Jasper*

　　Milo

　　Oliver

　　Silas

　　Henry*

　　Wyatt

　　*New in 2017

　　On Nameberry’s Top 100, new entrants besides Maia on the girls’ side are Rumi, the name of Beyonce and Jay-Z’s baby daughter, along with Brielle, Allegro, Celeste, Elena, and Alexandra.

　　There are more than twice as many new names on the boys’ Top 100. They are:

　　Adam

　　Augustus

　　Caspian

　　Charlie

　　Dante

　　Edward

　　Emmett

　　Everett

　　Ian

　　Jonathan

　　Kane

　　Kian

　　Magnus

　　Maverick

　　Rhett

　　Winston

　　Xander

　　The girls’ names vaulting the most places up the list in 2017 are Evelyn, Amara, Naomi, Ada, and Phoebe, all up more than 20 places.

　　For boys, names that rose 20 or more places are Leo, Harvey, Kai, Liam, Arthur, Cassius, George, Finn, Ryker, Louis, Harry, and Jude.

　　Mythological names, those of ancient cultures, and from classic literature, influences that topped our baby name trend predictions for 2017, have proven to be most popular this year.

　　Atticus qualifies on two counts. It’s the name of a Roman literary figure as well as the first name of the hero of Harper Lee’s beloved novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

　　Number 2 girls’ name Cora has mythological roots — it’s another name for Persephone, goddess of fertility and the underworld — and is also the first name of the heroine of the classic American novel Last of the Mohicans. Maia is the Greek mother of Hermes and the Roman goddess of spring. Rumi is the name of an ancient Muslim (male) poet and Phoebe is another name for the goddess of the moon and also figures in the New Testament, Shakespeare, and Catcher in the Rye.

　　On the boys’ side, Silas relates to the Roman god of trees, Augustus is the name of a Roman Emperor, and Magnus is a royal appellation meaning “greatest.” Caspian is a name from The Chronicles of Narnia and Dante was a medieval poet.

　　Other mythological and literary names on the rise include Ophelia, Freya, and Esme for girls; Cassius, Axel, and Felix for boys.

　　Here are the Top 100 Names for Girls in 2017:

　　Olivia

　　Cora

　　Amelia

　　Charlotte

　　Isla

　　Isabella

　　Maia

　　Aurora

　　Amara

　　Ava

　　Rumi

　　Penelope

　　Evelyn

　　Ophelia

　　Rose

　　Eleanor

　　Violet

　　Luna

　　Arabella

　　Hazel

　　Imogen

　　Esme

　　Maeve

　　Elizabeth

　　Alice

　　Audrey

　　Adeline

　　Genevieve

　　Aurelia

　　Thea

　　Khaleesi

　　Lucy

　　Ivy

　　Jane

　　Emma

　　Mia

　　Eloise

　　Claire

　　Emilia

　　Nora

　　Iris

　　Lydia

　　Anna

　　Astrid

　　Lila

　　Julia

　　Sadie

　　Elise

　　Stella

　　Isabel

　　Scarlett

　　Ada

　　Evangeline

　　Caroline

　　Eliza

　　Adelaide

　　Matilda

　　Aria

　　Naomi

　　Clara

　　Phoebe

　　Chloe

　　Elodie

　　Josephine

　　Brielle

　　Sienna

　　Beatrice

　　Molly

　　Ella

　　Mae

　　Mila

　　Allegro

　　Hannah

　　Celeste

　　Seraphina

　　Zoe

　　Freya

　　Sophia

　　Maisie

　　Gemma

　　Willow

　　Poppy

　　Grace

　　Margaret

　　Madeline

　　Emily

　　Elena

　　Daisy

　　Maya

　　Elsie

　　Juliet

　　Willa

　　Ellie

　　Jade

　　Eliana

　　Rebecca

　　Zara

　　Alexandra

　　Evie

　　Abigail

　　And here are 2017’s Top 100 Names for Boys:

　　Atticus

　　Asher

　　Jack

　　Theodore

　　Jasper

　　Milo

　　Oliver

　　Silas

　　Henry

　　Wyatt

　　Leo

　　Oscar

　　Declan

　　Xavier

　　Felix

　　Levi

　　Finn

　　Matthew

　　Thomas

　　Axel

　　Sebastian

　　Arthur

　　Bodhi

　　Alexander

　　Kai

　　Ethan

　　Julian

　　Benjamin

　　William

　　Caleb

　　Zachary

　　Aryan

　　Liam

　　Miles

　　Elijah

　　James

　　Callum

　　John

　　Soren

　　Charles

　　Tobias

　　Harvey

　　Andrew

　　Roman

　　Eli

　　Harry

　　Harrison

　　Ronan

　　Ryker

　　Ezra

　　Nathaniel

　　Cassius

　　Jacob

　　Jude

　　Charlie

　　Dante

　　Isaac

　　George

　　Archer

　　Samuel

　　Lachlan

　　Hugo

　　Luke

　　Magnus

　　Isaiah

　　Rhett

　　Daniel

　　Jonathan

　　Gideon

　　Lucas

　　Graham

　　Owen

　　Wesley

　　Louis

　　Maverick

　　Josiah

　　Lucian

　　Joseph

　　Lewis

　　Augustus

　　Simon

　　Gabriel

　　Everett

　　Kian

　　Vincent

　　Xander

　　Kane

　　Nolan

　　Griffin

　　David

　　Emmett

　　Ian

　　Adam

　　Caspian

　　Nathan

　　Winston

　　Beckett

　　Nicholas

　　Edward

　　Knox

　　The 1000 Most Popular Baby Names 2017 for both genders is here.

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