The Biblical Ezra has zoomed to the top of the list to become Nameberry’s new Number 1 boys’ name of 2015.

　　Last year Ezra made it onto Nameberry’s Top 10 for the first time. On the US list, Ezra is nearing the Top 100 and we expect it to be among the new generation of Biblical names – which includes Asher, Silas, Jude, and Levi – destined to take over from current favorites such as Noah, Jacob, and Ethan.

　　Asher, Number 1 for the past two years, slipped to second place. The only new name in our boys’ Top 10 is Jude, which replaces Finn, a name that had been Number 1 for boys on Nameberry for several years but has slid to Number 22.

　　Boys’ names new to Nameberry’s Top 100 are: Jayden, Eli, Logan, Luca, Charlie, Connor, David, Joseph, Hunter, Rhett, Evan, Aryan, Maddox, Harry, Cohen, and Cole.

　　Kai, which stands just outside the Top 10, is our furthest rising boys’ name, up 55 places. The hottest names for boys, with the number of places they’ve risen, are:

　　Kai, +55

　　Austin, +53

　　Lachlan, +50

　　Graham, +47

　　Everett, +34

　　Theo, +33

　　Elliot, +29

　　Matthew, +23

　　Lincoln, +22

　　Axel, +21

　　The Nameberry popularity list gauges interest levels of visitors in names, measuring which of our name pages received the most views of the total 300 million to the site this year.. The majority of people searching Nameberry are looking for names for their babies, so our popularity list predicts which names parents are likely to be naming their children in 2015 and 2016, versus the official US popularity list, which looks at which names parents chose in 2014. Nameberry’s searches also register ups and downs in interest due to news or pop culture events, such as the fall from grace of fictional lawyer Atticus Finch.

　　In 2015, two royal names, George and Charles, fell off the boys’ Top 100.  And eight of the 13 boys’ names that have vanished either start or end – or both – with the trendy n sound: Nathan, Nolan, Nicholas, Nash, Holden, Simon, Tristan….and Knox.

　　Here’s the full Nameberry Top 100 for boys:

　　Ezra

　　Asher

　　Atticus

　　Declan

　　Oliver

　　Silas

　　Milo

　　Jude

　　Henry

　　Jasper

　　Kai

　　Levi

　　Jack

　　Leo

　　Wyatt

　　Caleb

　　Liam

　　Miles

　　Austin

　　James

　　Sebastian

　　Finn

　　Theo

　　Ryker

　　Andrew

　　Zachary

　　Everett

　　Oscar

　　William

　　Felix

　　Ethan

　　Owen

　　Beckett

　　Theodore

　　Benjamin

　　Thomas

　　Axel

　　Jayden

　　Ronan

　　Archer

　　Graham

　　Callum

　　Eli

　　Logan

　　Luca

　　Bodhi

　　Luke

　　Lachlan

　　Soren

　　Grayson

　　Jacob

　　Sawyer

　　Elijah

　　Alexander

　　Isaac

　　Ryder

　　Jackson

　　Elliot

　　Lucas

　　Arthur

　　Josiah

　　Roman

　　Emmett

　　Nathaniel

　　Dashiell

　　Rhys

　　Beau

　　Jonah

　　Hudson

　　Lincoln

　　Harrison

　　Julian

　　Charlie

　　Noah

　　Rowan

　　Samuel

　　Matthew

　　Xavier

　　Christian

　　Connor

　　David

　　Gabriel

　　Joseph

　　Zane

　　Hunter

　　Rhett

　　Weston

　　Evan

　　Arlo

　　Aryan

　　Maddox

　　John

　　Maxwell

　　August

　　Daniel

　　Harry

　　Griffin

　　Tobias

　　Cohen

　　Cole