Most Popular Baby Names of 2014….so far
The midyear tally of the most popular baby names of 2014 is in, with Imogen and Asher holding onto the Number 1 spots they claimed for 2013.
Silas, Jasper, and Milo have all risen into the Top 10 for boys, while the sedate Claire is the only new entrant into the girls’ Top 10.
The most steeply-rising names are Cordelia for girls and Archer for boys.
The 2014 popular baby names list is based on the number of views each name attracted on Nameberry for the first half of the year. Rather than a measure of what people named their babies in the past, like the official popularity lists from the US and other countries, the Nameberry list gauges which names parents are most interested in for babies due to be born in coming months.
Top girls’ name Imogen, a Shakespearean name popular in England, has never been in the US Top 1000, with only 131 baby girls named Imogen in the US in 2013. But there were close to 200,000 views of Imogen on Nameberry in the first half of 2014.
Number 1 boys’ name Asher, a Biblical name meaning fortunate or happy, has zoomed up the US popularity list over the past few decades and is poised to break into the official Top 100. There were nearly 150,000 views of the name Asher on Nameberry from January through June 2014.
Along with Cordelia and Archer, other fast-rising names include Ellie, Adeline, and Ruby for girls, and for boys, Knox, Bodhi, Soren, and Wyatt. These and other names making significant moves up the list are marked with a double asterisk.
Names that fell the furthest from their 2013 status were the pop culture-driven Hadley, Everly, and Merida for girls, along with Jayden, Gray, and Aiden for boys.
This is our first official tally since we separated unisex names into individual listings for each gender, and so we have a more accurate count of how many parents are looking at the girls’ versus boys’ entries for names such as Harper and Rowan. Several of these unisex names are marked with a single asterisk as new entries to the girls’ and boys’ popularity lists.
Other new entries to the Top 100 include Khaleesi from Game of Throne_s, at Number 18, and Elsa from _Frozen. Along with the Hunger Games‘ Katniss and Hazel from The Fault in Our Stars, names that rank high in 2014 show the continued influence of celebrities and pop culture.
Here’s the Nameberry Top 100 for 2014… so far:
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*New to Top 100 **Rising quickly on the list
Thanks to Ren Williams, our head forums moderator and new intern, for help analyzing the data.
Here, our predictions for the 12 Top Baby Name Trends of 2014:
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