Unisex Names of the 2014 Top 1000
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
1,172
4,188
3,016
970
585
385
6,255
1,179
5,076
319
2,419
2,100
2,269
9,517
7,248
264
278
14
4,913
499
4,414
7,013
524
6,489
10,599
355
10,244
519
352
167
1,670
1,432
238
876
1,136
260
10,350
822
9,528
447
2,117
1,670
1,750
367
1,383
1,574
329
1,245
1,048
1,670
622
361
2,026
1,665
252
373
121
829
1,498
669
407
940
533
327
9,564
9,237
2,851
1,656
1,195
8,759
362
8,397
12,878
569
12,309
280
504
224
6,810
1,300
5,510
239
2,533
2,294
518
756
238
2,387
262
2,125
216
850
634
2,103
273
1,830
4,691
391
4,300
270
269
1
240
568
328
358
399
41
13,579
828
12,751
433
3,264
2,831
255
1,210
955
3,612
264
3,348
748
424
324
402
2,984
2,582
394
362
32
5,677
1,386
4,291
406
2,397
1,991
1,828
4,426
2,598
901
629
272
868
2,539
1,671
205
2,882
2,677
403
1,960
1,557
1,101
410
691
424
278
146
2,429
4,761
2,332
1,223
703
520
741
326
415
1,531
770
761
9,026
603
8,423
1,726
339
1,387
247
2,753
2,506
399
834
435
3,571
955
2,616
409
4,732
4,323
911
1,070
159
462
828
366
691
3,782
3,091
212
1,272
1,060
1,471
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
6,659
339
284
752
705
822
537
589
481
1,028
433
19,144
284
286
276
So, what do you think? Do you see any of the unisex names switching sides any time soon?