Top 100 Boy Names of 2014
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:
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.
Names that left the Boys’ Top 100 list this year are:
Thank you to Megan Garon for help compiling and analyzing these statistics.