By Linda Rosenkrantz
On Nameberry’s baby name popularity list for 2018, Atticus is the top boys’ name for the second year in a row and Olivia ranks as Number 1 for the third consecutive year. But the big news from the Most Popular Baby Names of 2018 is that three new names have attained a spot in the golden Top 10: Finn, Genevieve–which jumped up from #28 to #10–and Rose! Yes, that perennial middle name has now become a first name fave!
Parents have become more and more adventurous with their boy choices: in 2018 there were more boys’ names than girls’ entering the ranks of both the Top 100 and Top 1000 names. Nameberry boy favorites include fewer classics and traditional male picks, with style becoming a dominant factor.
For both genders we now see a preponderance of charming vintage revivals, with Clementine and Cordelia, Otto and Amos, all entering the Top 100. Unusual names made a strong showing as well, with high rankings for Amara, Aurora, Lyra and Wren, Atlas, Aarav, Ryker and Caspian.
Note: Four of the Top 10 girls’ names begin and end in the letter A.
Nameberry’s popular names list measures which names attracted the largest share of our nearly 250 million page views. It’s a measure of parents’ interest in baby names and a predictor of which names will become more popular in the future. While the latest national list measures 2017 popularity, Nameberry’s list gives a more current sense of what parents are considering NOW.
Here are the Top Ten baby names for each gender:
Isla
Amara
Cora
Charlotte
Aurora
Amelia
Ava
Rose
Genevieve
Milo
Jasper
Asher
Jack
Theodore
Silas
Wyatt
Henry
Finn
On Nameberry’s Top 100, new entrants on the girls’ side are:
Anastasia
Clementine
Cordelia
Emmeline
Florence
Lyra
Mabel
Margot
Wren
On the boys’ side there are 11 new names in the Top 100. They are:
Aarav
Amos
Atlas
Caspian
Desmond
Elias
Elio
Jayden
Otto
Ryker
Wilder
Big gains were also seen by Charlie, Louis and Emmett.
Number 1 boy name Atticus represents a growing trend towards ancient Latin names and literary heroes, Theodore is a second-tier classic making a strong comeback, while Silas is a name revived by Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake in 2015.
For girls, Charlotte reflects the influence of the British royal family; the popularity of multicultural Amara was probably spiked by her presence as an immortal character on The Vampire Diaries, while Genevieve is a fresher replacement for the Jen-generation of names.
Isla
Amara
Cora
Charlotte
Aurora
Amelia
Ava
Rose
Genevieve
Ophelia
Maeve
Eleanor
Iris
Ada
Luna
Penelope
Eloise
Violet
Alice
Ivy
Evelyn
Aurelia
Lucy
Isabella
Esme
Thea
Imogen
Arabella
Anna
Adeline
Hazel
Jane
Elodie
Nora
Elizabeth
Emilia
Freya
Evangeline
Eliza
Julia
Adelaide
Astrid
Sadie
Mia
Emma
Phoebe
Claire
Maisie
Lila
Chloe
Elise
Clara
Beatrice
Maia
Aria
Maya
Mae
Florence
Seraphina
Willa
Audrey
Lydia
Josephine
Lyra
Stella
Caroline
Matilda
Willow
Clementine
Margaret
Grace
Mila
Elsie
Sienna
Juliet
Isabel
Gemma
Eliana
Celeste
Emily
Sophia
Zoe
Elena
Zara
Anastasia
Molly
Margot
Emmeline
Ella
Poppy
Wren
Madeline
Naomi
Hannah
Mabel
Cornelia
Evie
Abigail
Daisy
Milo
Jasper
Asher
Jack
Theodore
Silas
Wyatt
Henry
Finn
Oscar
Oliver
Declan
Leo
Aryan
Felix
Bodhi
Levi
Axel
Ethan
Soren
Arthur
James
Thomas
Charlie
Kai
Liam
Sebastian
Ryker
Charles
Louis
Julian
Ezra
Caleb
Harry
Alexander
William
Jude
Eli
Benjamin
Cassius
Aarav
Callum
Elio
Elijah
John
Andrew
Zachary
Ronan
Desmond
Owen
Xavier
Emmett
Lewis
Luke
Caspian
Theo
Jacob
Samuel
Archer
Isaac
Hugo
Jayden
Roman
Simon
Atlas
Nathaniel
Wilder
Lachlan
Tobias
Matthew
Elias
Noah
Harrison
Daniel
Gideon
Otto
Josiah
Lucas
Magnus
Nolan
Gabriel
George
Lucian
Knox
Graham
Isaiah
Everett
Maverick
Xander
Rhett
David
Amos
Nathan
Miles
Kane
August
Beckett
Joseph
Griffin
See the full list of Nameberry’s Most Popular Baby Names 2018.
Thanks to Owen Satran for his statistical research.
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