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Girls’ Names 2010: Most Popular So Far

Girls’ Names 2010: Most Popular So Far

Three-quarters of the way through the year, we check in again with the most popular girls’ names 2010, nameberry style.

Once again, Charlotte heads the list of most-searched girls’ names on nameberry. In the number two spot is Violet, and former number two Seraphina has dropped to third place.

A note on tabulation: These lists represent the most-searched names on nameberry for January through September of 2010. Previously, we published the lists of most-searched girls’ names 2010 for the first half of the year, and before that for the first quarter.

This time around, a surprising 11 new girls’ names vaulted onto the Top 100. The newly-popular choices (in order of appearance on the list) are:

  • Eva

  • Olive

  • Eden

  • Annabel

  • Millie

  • Elodie

  • Rory

  • India

  • Mabel

  • Frances

  • Aurelia

  • Following are the names moving up the list for the second quarter in a row. Previously, we’d said not to pay too much attention to shifts up or down, but after two bumps up in a row, we start to wonder whether we smell a trend.

  • Violet

  • Imogen

  • Adelaide

  • Harper

  • Clementine

  • Beatrice

  • Flora

  • Margaret

  • Coco

  • Pearl

  • Julia

  • The girls’ names making the biggest gains up the baby names 2010 list include:

  • Adelaide

  • Aurora

  • Genevieve

  • Flora

  • Celia

  • Pearl

  • Mae

  • Here are the 11 girls names not among the Top 100 this time around. Many of these choices are, to me, not so surprising: they’re names that people have been hearing for longer and so may be less curious about.

    Remember, these lists represent not what names people are choosing for their children, but which names they’re searching on nameberry, so it’s a sure bet that while a more familiar name like Emily is getting less search attention than a newcomer such as Elodie, in the end more parents will choose the safer Emily.

  • Emily

  • Georgia

  • Sophie

  • Natalie

  • Leah

  • Harlow

  • Lulu

  • Jessica

  • Jillian

  • Lauren

  • Abigail

  • Girls’ names moving down for the second quarter in a row are, in order of their rank on the list:

  • Isla

  • Claire

  • Stella

  • Lucy

  • Grace

  • Arabella

  • Chloe

  • Avery

  • Zoe

  • Anna

  • Rose

  • Sarah

  • Mia

  • Ellie

  • Lydia

  • Hannah

  • Sasha

  • Fiona

  • The names with the biggest losses were Olivia and Elizabeth, down from 3 and 4 to 17 and 18 respectively, and Sophia down from 7 to 23, along with Audrey, Chloe, Avery, Zoe, Sarah, Penelope.

    Here is nameberry’s full list of Top 100 girls’ names 2010:

    1. Charlotte =

    2. Violet up

    3. Seraphina down

    4. Imogen up

    5. Adelaide up

    6. Eliza up

    7. Isla down

    8. Alice up

    9. Scarlett up

    10. Lily up

    11. Harper up

    12. Ella up

    13. Maisie up

    14. Amelia =

    15. Maeve up

    16. Ruby up

    17. Olivia down

    18. Elizabeth down

    19. Ava down

    20. Caroline down

    21. Matilda up

    22. Clementine up

    23. Sophia down

    24. Lila up

    25. Claire down

    26. Stella down

    27. Evangeline up

    28. Aurora up

    29. Laura down

    30. Lucy down

    31. Willa up – one of fastest falling last time

    32. Hazel up

    33. Grace down

    34. Ivy up

    35. Eleanor up

    36. Evelyn up

    37. Isabella down

    38. Nora up

    39. Emma down

    40. Esme up

    41. Beatrice up

    42. Clara down

    43. Cora up

    44. Quinn down

    45. Iris up

    46. Delilah up

    47. Poppy up

    48. Arabella down

    49. Lola down

    50. Genevieve up

    51. Josephine up

    52. Audrey down

    53. Phoebe up

    54. Chloe down

    55. Jane down

    56. Avery down

    57. Wren up

    58. Piper up

    59. Adeline up

    60. Daisy up

    61. Eva new

    62. Flora up

    63. Mae up

    64. Zoe down

    65. Celia up

    66. Rose down

    67. Eloise down

    68. Margaret up

    69. Anna down

    70. Penelope down

    71. Sarah down

    72. Bryn =

    73. Olive new

    74. Yvaine – returning after being off last quarter

    75. Coco up

    76. Pearl up (new last time)

    77. Eden new

    78. Annabel new

    79. Emmeline =

    80. Millie new

    81. Kate up

    82. Elodie new

    83. Louisa up

    84. Rory new

    85. Julia up

    86. Mia down

    87. Mary down

    88. India new

    89. Mabel new

    90. Frances new

    91. Aurelia new

    92. Madeline =

    93. Molly down

    94. Juliet down

    95. Ellie down

    96. Lydia down

    97. Hannah down

    98. Sasha down

    99. Fiona down

    100. Maya — returning after being off last quarter

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    About the Author

    Pamela Redmond

    Pamela Redmond

    Pamela Redmond is the cocreator and CEO of Nameberry and Baby Name DNA. The coauthor of ten groundbreaking books on names, Redmond is an internationally-recognized baby name expert, quoted and published widely in such media outlets as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Today Show, CNN, and the BBC. She has written about baby names for The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, and People.

    Redmond is also a New York Times bestselling novelist whose books include Younger, the basis for the hit television show, and its sequel, Older. She has three new books in the works.