By Kelli Brady, NameFreak!
There are 67 names in the 2014 Top 1000 that charted for both boys and girls. More if you count the ones that are spelled differently. It’s quite interesting to see which gender has taken over the name, as well as which names are given to a fairly close amount of boys and girls. Let’s take a look (name with the most babies is in bold)…
BOYS
GIRLS
DIFFERENCE
Alexis
1,172
Alexis
4,188
3,016
Amari
970
Amari
585
385
Angel
6,255
Angel
1,179
5,076
Ariel
319
Ariel
2,419
2,100
Avery
2,269
Avery
9,517
7,248
Azariah
264
Azariah
278
14
Blake
4,913
Blake
499
4,414
Cameron
7,013
Cameron
524
6,489
Carter
10,599
Carter
355
10,244
Casey
519
Casey
352
167
Charlie
1,670
Charlie
1,432
238
Dakota
876
Dakota
1,136
260
Dylan
10,350
Dylan
822
9,528
Eden
447
Eden
2,117
1,670
Elliot
1,750
Elliot
367
1,383
Elliott
1,574
Elliott
329
1,245
Emerson
1,048
Emerson
1,670
622
Emery
361
Emery
2,026
1,665
Emory
252
Emory
373
121
Finley
829
Finley
1,498
669
Harley
407
Harley
940
533
Harper
327
Harper
9,564
9,237
Hayden
2,851
Hayden
1,656
1,195
Hunter
8,759
Hunter
362
8,397
Jayden
12,878
Jayden
569
12,309
Jessie
280
Jessie
504
224
Jordan
6,810
Jordan
1,300
5,510
Jordyn
239
Jordyn
2,533
2,294
Justice
518
Justice
756
238
Kai
2,387
Kai
262
2,125
Kamryn
216
Kamryn
850
634
Karter
2,103
Karter
273
1,830
Kayden
4,691
Kayden
391
4,300
Landry
270
Landry
269
1
Leighton
240
Leighton
568
328
Lennon
358
Lennon
399
41
Logan
13,579
Logan
828
12,751
London
433
London
3,264
2,831
Lyric
255
Lyric
1,210
955
Micah
3,612
Micah
264
3,348
Milan
748
Milan
424
324
Morgan
402
Morgan
2,984
2,582
Oakley
394
Oakley
362
32
Parker
5,677
Parker
1,386
4,291
Payton
406
Payton
2,397
1,991
Peyton
1,828
Peyton
4,426
2,598
Phoenix
901
Phoenix
629
272
Quinn
868
Quinn
2,539
1,671
Reagan
205
Reagan
2,882
2,677
Reese
403
Reese
1,960
1,557
Remington
1,101
Remington
410
691
Remy
424
Remy
278
146
Riley
2,429
Riley
4,761
2,332
River
1,223
River
703
520
Rory
741
Rory
326
415
Rowan
1,531
Rowan
770
761
Ryan
9,026
Ryan
603
8,423
Rylan
1,726
Rylan
339
1,387
Rylee
247
Rylee
2,753
2,506
Sage
399
Sage
834
435
Sawyer
3,571
Sawyer
955
2,616
Skylar
409
Skylar
4,732
4,323
Skyler
911
Skyler
1,070
159
Tatum
462
Tatum
828
366
Taylor
691
Taylor
3,782
3,091
Teagan
212
Teagan
1,272
1,060
Zion
1,471
Zion
295
1,176
I have quite a few observations here…
Of the 67 names, the boys control 33 and the girls control 34.
Azariah has always been close, but while it started out controlled by the boys in 1972, the girls took over starting in 1998.
Jordan is controlled by the boys and Jordyn is controlled by the girls.
Cameron is controlled by the boys and Kamryn is controlled by the girls.
Look how close Landry is! We’ll have to wait and see if the girls take over in 2015!
Lennon has always been controlled by the boys, until now! 2014 marks the year that the girls take over the famous musician’s surname.
Oakley is another name that could easily be taken over by the girls in the near future.
The girls have comfortably taken over the Pa/eytons.
While both spellings of Skylar/Skyler are controlled by the girls, more girls are given the Skylar spelling and more boys are given the Skyler spelling.
Several of the above names have alternate spellings (i.e., Azaria, Ryann), but I did not add them to the numbers because I thought it was interesting to just see the straight comparison of names.
There are also several names in the Top 1000 that are basically the same name but spelled differently for boys versus girls. Here is what I found…
BOYS
GIRLS
Adrian
6,659
Adrienne
339
Adrien
284
Braylen
752
Braelyn
705
Braylon
822
Braelynn
537
Francis
589
Frances
481
Karson
1,028
Karsyn
433
Noah
19,144
Noa
284
Rene
286
Renee
276
So, what do you think? Do you see any of the unisex names switching sides any time soon?