Asher and Declan retained their Number 1 and 2 spots at the top of Nameberry’s most popular list of boys’ names for 2014.
The big news with boys’ names focuses on the new names moving up the ladder. Four names are new to the Top 10 this year: Silas, Jasper, Milo, and Ezra.
The boys’ names that made the biggest leaps up the list are Knox, up 60 places, flowed by Archer up 45 and Ryker up 44. Bodhi, Soren, and Beau also made big gains.
Nameberry’s popularity lists are based on which names attracted the most views of the nearly 50 million views of our name pages in the past year.
Names that made the biggest slides down the list compared with last year are all emblematic of pop culture shifts. Flynn, popularized by last year’s television sensation Breaking Bad, lost 67 places, while Christian from Fifty Shades of Grey and Arlo of Justified were the second and third biggest losers. George, as in 2013’s little prince, dropped 36 spots.
The top 100 boys’ names of 2014 are:
Asher
Declan
Atticus
Oliver
Silas
Henry
Jasper
Finn
Milo
Ezra
Leo
Levi
Jude
Wyatt
Felix
Sebastian
Soren
Beckett
Miles
Theodore
Bodhi
Jack
Liam
Archer
Owen
Emmett
Ethan
William
Sawyer
Caleb
Benjamin
Oscar
Josiah
Julian
James
Andrew
Hudson
Knox
Hugo
Alexander
Zachary
Dashiell
Ryder
Ryker
Ronan
Lucas
Thomas
Elijah
Luke
Samuel
Callum
Noah
Arthur
Isaac
Jacob
Theo
Weston
Axel
Roman
Rhys
Everett
Zane
Grayson
Rowan
August
Kai
Harrison
Beau
Gabriel
Jackson
Griffin
Austin
Nolan
Xavier
Daniel
Nathaniel
Charles
Nash
Simon
Jonah
Holden
Micah
Flynn
John
Wesley
Christian
Elliot
Graham
Nathan
George
Nicholas
Lincoln
Cassius
Tristan
Gideon
Maxwell
Tobias
Lachlan
Arlo
Matthew
Names new to the Boy Top 100 or returning this year are the following. Note that some of these names were previously including on the Top Unisex Names list, but now that we have separated our pages for girl and boy versions of unisex names, we’re able to tally which gender is being searched.
Austin
Axel
Cassius
Elliot
Graham
Griffin
Holden
Kai
Lachlan
Lincoln
Maxwell
Nash
Ronan
Rowan
Sawyer
Tobias
Wesley
Weston
Names that left the Boys’ Top 100 list this year are:
Aiden
Cole
David
Django
Dylan
Edward
Eli
Elias
Gray
Jayden
Kieran
Logan
Luca
Mason
Max
Michael
Nico
Ryan
Spencer
Thank you to Megan Garon for help compiling and analyzing these statistics.