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Most Popular Baby Names of 2014….so far

Most Popular Baby Names of 2014….so far

By Pamela Redmond Satran

The midyear tally of the most popular baby names of 2014 is in, with Imogen and Asher holding onto the Number 1 spots they claimed for 2013.

Silas, Jasper, and Milo have all risen into the Top 10 for boys, while the sedate Claire is the only new entrant into the girls’ Top 10.

The most steeply-rising names are Cordelia for girls and Archer for boys.

The 2014 popular baby names list is based on the number of views each name attracted on Nameberry for the first half of the year.  Rather than a measure of what people named their babies in the past, like the official popularity lists from the US and other countries, the Nameberry list gauges which names parents are most interested in for babies due to be born in coming months.

Top girls’ name Imogen, a Shakespearean name popular in England, has never been in the US Top 1000, with only 131 baby girls named Imogen in the US in 2013.  But there were close to 200,000 views of Imogen on Nameberry in the first half of 2014.

Number 1 boys’ name Asher, a Biblical name meaning fortunate or happy, has zoomed up the US popularity list over the past few decades and is poised to break into the official Top 100.  There were nearly 150,000 views of the name Asher on Nameberry from January through June 2014.

Along with Cordelia and Archer, other fast-rising names include Ellie, Adeline, and Ruby for girls, and for boys, Knox, Bodhi, Soren, and Wyatt.  These and other names making significant moves up the list are marked with a double asterisk.

Names that fell the furthest from their 2013 status were the pop culture-driven Hadley, Everly, and Merida for girls, along with Jayden, Gray, and Aiden for boys.

This is our first official tally since we separated unisex names into individual listings for each gender, and so we have a more accurate count of how many parents are looking at the girls’ versus boys’ entries for names such as Harper and Rowan. Several of these unisex names are marked with a single asterisk as new entries to the girls’ and boys’ popularity lists.

Other new entries to the Top 100 include Khaleesi from Game of Throne_s, at Number 18, and Elsa from _Frozen.   Along with the Hunger GamesKatniss and Hazel from The Fault in Our Stars, names that rank high in 2014 show the continued influence of celebrities and pop culture.

Here’s the Nameberry Top 100 for 2014… so far:

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girls

  1. IMOGEN

  2. CHARLOTTE

  3. ISLA

  4. CORA

  5. PENELOPE

  6. VIOLET

  7. AMELIA

  8. ELEANOR

  9. HARPER

  10. CLAIRE

  11. ALICE

  12. ADELAIDE

  13. HAZEL

  14. KATNISS

  15. OLIVIA

  16. EVANGELINE

  17. IVY

  18. KHALEESI*

  19. MAEVE

  20. EVELYN

  21. MAISIE

  22. ADELINE**

  23. GENEVIEVE

  24. SERAPHINA

  25. BEATRICE

  26. LUCY

  27. AURORA

  28. ROSE

  29. SCARLETT**

  30. ELIZABETH

  31. AVA

  32. ELODIE

  33. LILA**

  34. NORA

  35. GRACE

  36. EMMA

  37. WILLA

  38. CLEMENTINE

  39. MATILDA

  40. ELOISE

  41. CAROLINE

  42. CLARA

  43. FINN*

  44. AURELIA

  45. ARABELLA

  46. ELIZA

  47. POPPY

  48. ELLA

  49. SOPHIA

  50. IRIS

  51. RUBY**

  52. MILA

  53. JOSEPHINE

  54. HARLOW

  55. ARIA

  56. AUDREY

  57. ISABELLA

  58. WREN

  59. QUINN*

  60. CORDELIA**

  61. CHLOE

  62. MAE

  63. EMILY

  64. LUNA

  65. ROWAN*

  66. MIA

  67. STELLA

  68. EMMELINE

  69. ELLIE**

  70. JULIET

  71. MERIDA

  72. ANNA

  73. LILY

  74. OLIVE

  75. MARGARET

  76. PIPER

  77. AVERY*

  78. JANE

  79. SADIE

  80. LYDIA

  81. ESME

  82. EVERLY

  83. GEMMA

  84. WILLOW

  85. MAYA

  86. FRANCES

  87. LOUISA

  88. ELSA*

  89. ADA

  90. LOLA

  91. PHOEBE

  92. KINSLEY

  93. ZARA

  94. MADELINE

  95. HANNAH

  96. JAMES*

  97. DELILAH

  98. MABEL

  99. EMMETT*

  100. HADLEY

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boys

  1. ASHER

  2. DECLAN

  3. ATTICUS

  4. FINN

  5. OLIVER

  6. HENRY

  7. SILAS

  8. JASPER

  9. MILO

  10. JUDE

  11. EZRA

  12. EMMETT

  13. HARPER*

  14. LEO

  15. OWEN

  16. LEVI

  17. JAMES

  18. ROWAN*

  19. FELIX

  20. MILES

  21. SEBASTIAN

  22. LIAM

  23. SAWYER*

  24. JACK

  25. THEODORE

  26. BECKETT**

  27. WYATT**

  28. HUDSON

  29. EVELYN*

  30. KAI*

  31. ETHAN

  32. WILLIAM

  33. BENJAMIN

  34. SOREN**

  35. ELI

  36. CALEB

  37. FLYNN

  38. NOAH

  39. QUINN*

  40. JULIAN

  41. BODHI**

  42. ARCHER**

  43. OSCAR

  44. EVERETT

  45. ALEXANDER

  46. DJANGO

  47. AUGUST

  48. ANDREW

  49. JOSIAH

  50. DASHIELL

  51. ZACHARY

  52. CHRISTIAN

  53. KIERAN

  54. LUCA

  55. LUKE

  56. ELLIOT*

  57. CHARLIE*

  58. ELIJAH

  59. HUGO

  60. THOMAS

  61. RYDER

  62. ISAAC

  63. THEO

  64. JACOB

  65. RHYS

  66. LUCAS

  67. CALLUM

  68. ARTHUR

  69. GABRIEL

  70. SAMUEL

  71. ZANE

  72. NICO

  73. MICAH

  74. AVERY*

  75. DYLAN

  76. RYKER

  77. ROMAN

  78. NATHANIEL

  79. JACKSON

  80. GRAYSON

  81. GEORGE

  82. KNOX**

  83. RORY*

  84. RONAN*

  85. XAVIER

  86. DANIEL

  87. JOHN

  88. FINLEY*

  89. EMERSON*

  90. AIDEN

  91. HARRISON

  92. SIMON

  93. NOLAN

  94. CHARLES

  95. AXEL*

  96. TRISTAN

  97. ARLO

  98. BEAU

  99. JONAH

  100. MAX

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*New to Top 100         **Rising quickly on the list

Thanks to Ren Williams, our head forums moderator and new intern, for help analyzing the data.

Here, our predictions for the 12 Top Baby Name Trends of 2014:

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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.