By Pamela Redmond Satran

　　The midyear tally of the most popular baby names of 2014 is in, with Imogen and Asher holding onto the Number 1 spots they claimed for 2013.

　　Silas, Jasper, and Milo have all risen into the Top 10 for boys, while the sedate Claire is the only new entrant into the girls’ Top 10.

　　The most steeply-rising names are Cordelia for girls and Archer for boys.

　　The 2014 popular baby names list is based on the number of views each name attracted on Nameberry for the first half of the year.  Rather than a measure of what people named their babies in the past, like the official popularity lists from the US and other countries, the Nameberry list gauges which names parents are most interested in for babies due to be born in coming months.

　　Top girls’ name Imogen, a Shakespearean name popular in England, has never been in the US Top 1000, with only 131 baby girls named Imogen in the US in 2013.  But there were close to 200,000 views of Imogen on Nameberry in the first half of 2014.

　　Number 1 boys’ name Asher, a Biblical name meaning fortunate or happy, has zoomed up the US popularity list over the past few decades and is poised to break into the official Top 100.  There were nearly 150,000 views of the name Asher on Nameberry from January through June 2014.

　　Along with Cordelia and Archer, other fast-rising names include Ellie, Adeline, and Ruby for girls, and for boys, Knox, Bodhi, Soren, and Wyatt.  These and other names making significant moves up the list are marked with a double asterisk.

　　Names that fell the furthest from their 2013 status were the pop culture-driven Hadley, Everly, and Merida for girls, along with Jayden, Gray, and Aiden for boys.

　　This is our first official tally since we separated unisex names into individual listings for each gender, and so we have a more accurate count of how many parents are looking at the girls’ versus boys’ entries for names such as Harper and Rowan. Several of these unisex names are marked with a single asterisk as new entries to the girls’ and boys’ popularity lists.

　　Other new entries to the Top 100 include Khaleesi from Game of Throne_s, at Number 18, and Elsa from _Frozen.   Along with the Hunger Games‘ Katniss and Hazel from The Fault in Our Stars, names that rank high in 2014 show the continued influence of celebrities and pop culture.

　　Here’s the Nameberry Top 100 for 2014… so far:

　　[column1]

　　girls

　　IMOGEN

　　CHARLOTTE

　　ISLA

　　CORA

　　PENELOPE

　　VIOLET

　　AMELIA

　　ELEANOR

　　HARPER

　　CLAIRE

　　ALICE

　　ADELAIDE

　　HAZEL

　　KATNISS

　　OLIVIA

　　EVANGELINE

　　IVY

　　KHALEESI*

　　MAEVE

　　EVELYN

　　MAISIE

　　ADELINE**

　　GENEVIEVE

　　SERAPHINA

　　BEATRICE

　　LUCY

　　AURORA

　　ROSE

　　SCARLETT**

　　ELIZABETH

　　AVA

　　ELODIE

　　LILA**

　　NORA

　　GRACE

　　EMMA

　　WILLA

　　CLEMENTINE

　　MATILDA

　　ELOISE

　　CAROLINE

　　CLARA

　　FINN*

　　AURELIA

　　ARABELLA

　　ELIZA

　　POPPY

　　ELLA

　　SOPHIA

　　IRIS

　　RUBY**

　　MILA

　　JOSEPHINE

　　HARLOW

　　ARIA

　　AUDREY

　　ISABELLA

　　WREN

　　QUINN*

　　CORDELIA**

　　CHLOE

　　MAE

　　EMILY

　　LUNA

　　ROWAN*

　　MIA

　　STELLA

　　EMMELINE

　　ELLIE**

　　JULIET

　　MERIDA

　　ANNA

　　LILY

　　OLIVE

　　MARGARET

　　PIPER

　　AVERY*

　　JANE

　　SADIE

　　LYDIA

　　ESME

　　EVERLY

　　GEMMA

　　WILLOW

　　MAYA

　　FRANCES

　　LOUISA

　　ELSA*

　　ADA

　　LOLA

　　PHOEBE

　　KINSLEY

　　ZARA

　　MADELINE

　　HANNAH

　　JAMES*

　　DELILAH

　　MABEL

　　EMMETT*

　　HADLEY

　　[/column1][column2]

　　boys

　　ASHER

　　DECLAN

　　ATTICUS

　　FINN

　　OLIVER

　　HENRY

　　SILAS

　　JASPER

　　MILO

　　JUDE

　　EZRA

　　EMMETT

　　HARPER*

　　LEO

　　OWEN

　　LEVI

　　JAMES

　　ROWAN*

　　FELIX

　　MILES

　　SEBASTIAN

　　LIAM

　　SAWYER*

　　JACK

　　THEODORE

　　BECKETT**

　　WYATT**

　　HUDSON

　　EVELYN*

　　KAI*

　　ETHAN

　　WILLIAM

　　BENJAMIN

　　SOREN**

　　ELI

　　CALEB

　　FLYNN

　　NOAH

　　QUINN*

　　JULIAN

　　BODHI**

　　ARCHER**

　　OSCAR

　　EVERETT

　　ALEXANDER

　　DJANGO

　　AUGUST

　　ANDREW

　　JOSIAH

　　DASHIELL

　　ZACHARY

　　CHRISTIAN

　　KIERAN

　　LUCA

　　LUKE

　　ELLIOT*

　　CHARLIE*

　　ELIJAH

　　HUGO

　　THOMAS

　　RYDER

　　ISAAC

　　THEO

　　JACOB

　　RHYS

　　LUCAS

　　CALLUM

　　ARTHUR

　　GABRIEL

　　SAMUEL

　　ZANE

　　NICO

　　MICAH

　　AVERY*

　　DYLAN

　　RYKER

　　ROMAN

　　NATHANIEL

　　JACKSON

　　GRAYSON

　　GEORGE

　　KNOX**

　　RORY*

　　RONAN*

　　XAVIER

　　DANIEL

　　JOHN

　　FINLEY*

　　EMERSON*

　　AIDEN

　　HARRISON

　　SIMON

　　NOLAN

　　CHARLES

　　AXEL*

　　TRISTAN

　　ARLO

　　BEAU

　　JONAH

　　MAX

　　[/column2]

　　*New to Top 100         **Rising quickly on the list

　　Thanks to Ren Williams, our head forums moderator and new intern, for help analyzing the data.

　　Here, our predictions for the 12 Top Baby Name Trends of 2014:

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