There’s a new Number One boys’ name three-quarters of the way through the year. Finn beat out Henry to become the most popular of the boys’ names 2010, as the most-searched male name on nameberry for the nine months that just ended.
This is big news, not least because well-liked classic Henry got trumped by a quirky ethnic upstart. Of course, we’re talking most searched name here, not most used, and this is nameberry, where the patrons’ taste in names tends to be more sophisticated and distinctive than at your average baby-naming site.
Still, reaching Number One – not just for the third quarter, mind you, but for all of 2010 so far – is quite a distinction. So congratulations, Finn, and we’re sure we’ll be seeing you near the top of the official popularity lists one year soon.
The other major boy name trend evidenced here is the predominance of two-syllable names, with a full two-thirds of nameberry’s most popular boys’ names 2010 having two syllables and 17 more having (like Finn) just one.
In other news, these names are newcomers to nameberry’s Top 100 (boys' names 2010):
They replace these, which have fallen off the Top 100:
Names moving up the ladder for the second time in a row include the following, which we now have officially on trend watch:
Names making the biggest leaps upward are:
And boys’ names making their second slide down the popularity list include the following, not surprising, for the most part, as they’re mostly classics or stylish names that may have passed their sell-by date:
Those falling the furthest are:
Nameberry’s full Top 100 Boys’ Names 2010 so far, with their status change for this count compared with their standing at the half year mark, are:
Finn up
Henry down
Jasper up
Asher up
Atticus up
Oliver down
Milo up
Jude up
James down
Kai up
Felix up
Jack down
Sebastian up
Sawyer up
Joseph up
Max down
Theo up
Dashiell up
Hudson up
Owen down
August up
Liam down
Rowan up
Levi up
Leo down
Miles up
Auden up
William down
Beckett up
Eli up
Silas up
Declan up
Oscar up
Noah down
Rhys =
John down
Phineas down
Michael down
Elliot =
Dexter up
Roman up
Riley down
Charlie up
Ezra up
Alexander down
Gus up
Luca up
Benjamin down
Luke up
Julian up
Ryan down
Edward up
Aidan up
Dylan up
Tobias up
Lucas down
Emmett up
Andrew down
Caleb up
Jacob down
Mason down
Isaac down
Ethan down
Logan down
David down
Jackson down
Tristan new
Elijah new
Sam up
Jonah up
Charles down
Thomas down
Micah up
Sullivan new
Ash up
Daniel down
Evan down
Nico up
Theodore down
George down
Kyle down
Samuel down
Wyatt down
Callum up
Simon down
Gabriel down
Cole down
Rufus up
Peter down
Everett down
Gideon new
Robert down
Elias new
Nathan down
Magnus new
Matthew down
Cormac new
Orion down
Nathaniel new
Liev back after an absence
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