Baby Names 2010: Top 100 Girls’ Names

Are the question marks suppose to be arrows? What do the astricks mean?

The arrows got morphed into question marks by the program — arrows restored now. The asterisks indicate names new to the list this quarter.

Shoot! It’s doing it again! I’m going to have to convert the arrows to words….

Fixed, but the arrows looked so much more elegant!

Beautiful names. I’m a little surprised by how high Flora, Mary, Willa, and Celia rank in the search.

Can you account for international searches? It will be interesting to see how soon Poppy, Imogen, Phoebe, Eloise, and Matilda infiltrate our shores on a grand scale. Can’t wait for the boys!

My favourites are going down! Hooray! I’m probably 6-8 years away from having kids, so the further down they go, the better!

I think Jessica is the most “random” show-up. Jessica appears very “Beyond Jennifer and Jason” to me.

I also love the picture of the baby used for that one, if you know/can say, who made that darling tutu?

I’m sorry, I don’t know who made the tutu, but it is a great color, isn’t it?

Bella, I just caution you not to take the movement too-too seriously — what’s down this quarter might be up the next, and in general all these names will be moving up in the SS list.

Elisabeth, unfortunately, we can’t track which names visitors from different countries are most interested in, but if we looked at the top 150 names, I bet Poppy, Imogen etc would be in there. Eloise just fell out this quarter.

Well, let’s watch what the SSA does in the next couple of years and see if Nameberry is a bellwether (or an accurate reflection of the actual unknown bellwether).

I selfishly hope not. I really love Seraphina.

I really love Seraphina, too, and undoubtedly a lot of the attention is just Ben-and-Jen stuff. On the other hand, check out the popularity graph for Violet: http://nameberry.com/babyname/violet Pretty stunning and I see no reason why Seraphina won’t follow suit.

Poppy (65), Imogen (12), and Eloise (45) are on the list above Pam. That’s what I was referring to.

Duh, can you tell I’m running around today?

‘Sokay. We’d rather have you from the Blackberry than not at all.

My twins names made the list. Oh I sure do hope that it’s just a nameberry thing! I can’t wait to see the boys’ list tomorrow. I am a little nervous that the name we picked out for little bit will be up there! :-/

Oh and about the Randi
Jessica thing – do you think it’s just because a whole bunch of grown up Jessica’s are searching for their own name? I do. Have to admit. I looked up everyone’s name in the family to see what was said about them.

*random not Randi.

In and around my neighborhood (playground, daycamp, music class, etc.) and amongst my friends with new babies, I’ve met the following:

Charlotte x2, Caroline, Lucy, Amelia x3, Ella x3, Stella x2, Serafina, Harper x3, Jane, Maeve, Ruby x2, Ivy, Hazel x2, Flora x2, Juliet, Fiona, Willa x2, Chloe, Leah x2

So this list seems pretty spot on. I think Laura and Mary are nice surprises though. I’ve met both Floras and both Willas in the past couple of months (all under two). One was a set of twins–Flora and Jane, which I love!

Can’t wait to see the boys’ list!

Well, Pam, I’ve been searching Ivy pretty much every day for the last several months – could that be a major reason for its sudden rise in popularity?

Um, is Lucy on there twice? #13 and #83?

Whoops! Welcome back, Louisa. And don’t worry, muchedumbre, your searches aren’t skewing the results. We can see both total searches and number of individuals who searched so we can tell if one person searching repeatedly is throwing things off.

This reads like a list of characters in a Victorian novel! Seems like Samantha, Ruth, Elsie, Hattie and Tabitha would be close to this list too. So many of my favorites here!

What a beautiful list! I wish this were the actual top 100. Not a -son or tryndee name in site.

This is information has limited applicability to the real world. Many of the people who visit this site regularly don’t even have children, and the names that are viewed may have little relation to what people are actually naming their children. The correct title of the list would be “Names a Very Small Group of People Like to Read About Online.”

Thanks for the linky to Violet. Sheesh! It’s in the top 200 now? Where did the time go? I’m cheering with a sinking heart. I may have to look further afield than Seraphine. That, or stick it in a middle slot.

*or* I could just get over myself and use it anyway and moo with the herd…

I’m curious about the searches–do you guys record every name searched? It would be a good way to know which new names to add to the site. There’ve been a fair number I’ve looked for here with nothing, that I’ve been curious to know your opinion on.

(you guys are sort of the cool older sister/aunt for baby naming)

*bah* ended on a prepositional phrase. It’s something up with which I will not put!

Haha, Sachiko. Yes, Google Analytics tracks every search but I’ve never combed the archives for names people search for and don’t find (not sure it parses it that way). But I’m fixing to do a post on searched names that are really unusual, so some may be in there!

Plus we hope one day soon Hugh our engineer will add functionality for member-added names.

Our little Genevieve Simone was born Wednesday, and I was finally able to convince my husband that the name was popular/common enough that we didn’t need to use a common name in the middle (Sophia and Harper were on the table–both pretty high up the list, both here and in the SSA).

Seeing her name appear in the top 100 here last time you posted the 2010 round-up, and also seeing on nameberry that Evie (her probable informal nickname) is near the top in the UK helped him get over his concerns that Genevieve is too uncommon–a worry he had due to his not liking his own uncommon/”old-fashioned” first and middle names. Being a Lisa born in the 1970s, I of course had the opposite experience and opinion with commonly given names.

This list is wonderful! Pam what are your predictions for Clementine. Its high on this list and moving up and I see it discussed all the time on nameberry boards. Claudia schiffer has a Clementine plus Ethan Hawke just had a little Clementine. KAte Winslet plays a Clementine in “eternal sunshine of the spotless mind”. So Clementine is strange but still known. Do you think Clementine will get the Seraphina/Harlow/Violet treatment? What is the highest you think this name will reach?

Thanx,
Meryl

A lot of these have a distinct British feel! Most would not be out of place in a Telegraph Birth Announcement.
I have seen some of these popping up in the NZ birth announcements maybe indicating we are following there trends more closely than the USA…

Anna, that is an excellent point and one we should have thought to make. In fact, nameberry is quite international with about 20 percent of visitors coming from the UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, and in fact around the world. So that’s one reason this list varies so much from the US popularity list.

Both of my sisters names are on the list, Imogen and Poppy, but mine, Danae is not. Thats just how I like it.

Lisa, congratulations on Genevieve Simone. Lovely name with a lot of great nn options. Meryl, I do think Clementine is stylish but don’t see it getting overly popular. Funny that it’s still not back in the Top 1000, though I can definitely imagine it in the US Top 100 in a decade. But not in the Top 10. However, if you live somewhere populated by a lot of nameberry types, you may hear it a lot more often than you would in the general population!

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my baby girl will be named Sofia

Are you sure its not 1910? Imogen? Maisie?

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this is really cool but i didnt see my name its jayden but people call me bell maybey i didnt look hard enough idk lol please help and tell me if u see my name thanks because i really wanna know if my name went lol

my favorite name was sadie thats what i’ll name my little girl when i have one (in ten years)