Back in February, a topic was posted on the Girls’ Names section of our Message Boards suggesting that people list their current Top Ten favorite names for girls, and it’s been running ever since.  What’s especially nice about this for us is that  it’s given Pam and me a fascinating look into the specific likes and loves of the nameberry community.  After all, for a long time, through our books and on the site,  you’ve gotten to know our opinions on both general categories of names and specific examples–and now the tables have been turned.

　　And we’re so gratified to see that we’re almost universally in synch (we’ll be dealing with dislikes and ‘heresies’ tomorrow), and that for the most part you love the names we love, affirming  to us that we have the most enlightened, most thoughtful, most tasteful, group of name lovers in existence.

　　Proof to us was in the pudding of names that showed up most frequently on your Top Ten lists, all possessing both substance and style.  So even though the thread is still alive, I couldn’t resist tallying up the Top Names of the Top Tens to date.

　　The most popular three are, in order:

　　BEATRIX

　　PENELOPE

　　CLEMENTINE

　　Followed by:

　　WILLOW and

　　DELILAH, and then:

　　ADELINE

　　ELIZABETH

　　FRANCESCA

　　JOSEPHINE

　　The next group:

　　CECILIA

　　CLARA

　　ELIZA

　　FELICITY

　　FRANCES

　　IRIS

　　ISLA

　　LILA

　　STELLA

　　VIOLET

　　and then:

　　ALICE

　　AMELIA

　　ANNABEL

　　BEATRICE

　　ELEANOR

　　ESME

　　EVANGELINE

　　GENEVIEVE

　　GEORGIA

　　JULIET

　　JUNE

　　MATILDA

　　TALLULAH

　　WILLA

　　and finally

　　EDEN

　　EMMELINE

　　GEMMA

　　HAZEL

　　JOCELYN

　　LEAH

　　LOLA

　　LOUISA

　　LUCIA

　　LYDIA

　　MAEVE

　　OLIVIA

　　PALOMA

　　We’ll continue to track  the changes as more lists are added, and also hope to see more Boys Current Favorites lists posted to the boards so we can get a good sampling of those as well.

　　Another route to the nameberry aesthetic is to look at which names get the most 5-star ratings by visitors.  The Top 25 of these, at this moment, are:

　　CHARLOTTE

　　VIOLET

　　MATILDA

　　RUBY

　　GRACE

　　IRIS

　　ADELAIDE

　　LUCY

　　ALICE

　　CLEMENTINE

　　CLAIRE

　　ISLA

　　AMELIA

　　SCARLETT

　　ELIZA

　　CLARA

　　BEATRICE

　　IMOGENE

　　STELLA

　　JOSEPHINE

　　EVANGELINE

　　HARPER

　　ELEANOR

　　IVY

　　LILA

　　TUNE IN TOMORROW TO SEE WHICH NAMES NAMEBERRYITES DON‘T LIKE–AND WHY.