Popular Names: Your 2011 predictions, please!

I think Ava & Olivia are going to go up, Emma & Emily will probably go down

I think Sophia will go up to number 1. I think Jacob will go down and Jayden and Aiden to go a little higher. I think Alexander will go down. I think Ava will be number 2 and Olivia will be number 3, Mia will probably go up a few places too.

1-Jacob
2-Michael
3-Ethan
4-Alexander
5-Jayden
6-William
7-Anthony
8-Aiden
9-Daniel
10-Mason

1-Isabella
2-Sophia
3-Olivia
4-Emma
5-Ava
6-Abigail
7-Chloe
8-Emily
9-Addison
10-Mia

Here’s my guess… no rhyme or reason to it. Just blind guessing based on my area! haha

GIRLS:

1. Isabella
2. Olivia
3. Ava
4. Sophia
5. Emma
6. Emily
7. Madison
8. Abigail
9. Addison
10. Elizabeth

(Runners up: Lily, Chloe, Mia)

BOYS:

1. Michael
2. Ethan
3. Jacob
4. William
5. Aiden
6. Jayden
7. Noah
8. Alexander
9. Logan
10. Daniel

(Runners Up: Christopher, Matthew, Joshua)

here’s a guess (and I am really just guessing):

1) Sophia
2) Emma
3) Olivia
4) Isabella
5) Abigail
5) Mia
6) Chloe
7) Elizabeth
8) Lily
9) Ella
10) Alexis

1) Micheal
2) Jayden
3) William
4) Alexander
5) Noah
6) Anthony
7) Aiden
8) Ethan
9) Jacob
10) Daniel

hah! my 8 ) turned into 8)

Boys
1 – Jacob
2 – Jayden
3 – Michael
4 – William
5 – Aiden
6 – Ethan
7 – Noah
8 – Logan
9 – Mason
10 – Joshua

Girls:
1 – Isabella
2 – Sophia
3 – Olvia
4 – Emma
5 – Addison
6 – Ava
7 – Madison
8 – Abigail
9 – Elizabeth
10 – Mia

I also predict Philippa, Pippa, Emmeline to make it into the Top 1000

1.Sophia
2. Isabella
3. Olivia
4. Ava
5. Emma
6. Emily
7. Chloe
8. Mia
9. Abigail
10. Madison

1. Jacob
2. Ethan
3. Jayden
4. William
5. Michael
6. Noah
7. Aiden
8. Alexander
9. Daniel
10. Mason

My guesses for the top ten:

1. Sophia
2. Isabella
3. Emma
4. Ava
5. Olivia
6. Abigail
7. Chloe
8. Emily
9. Mia
10. Natalie

1. Jacob
2. Ethan
3. Jayden
4. William
5. Michael
6. Alexander
7. Noah
8. Daniel
9. Aiden
10. Mason

And, just for fun, the next five:

11. Addison
12. Madison
13. Elizabeth
14. Lily
15. Ella

11. Anthony
12. Elijah
13. Joshua
14. Christopher
15. Logan

1. Emma
2. Isabella
3. Olivia
4. Ava
5. Sophia
6. Madison
7. Emily
8. Elizabeth
9. Abigail
10. Chloe

1. Jacob
2. Jayden
3. Ethan
4. Michael
5. William
6. Noah
7. Aiden
8. Daniel
9. Alexander
10. Mason

Here’s my guess:

girls

1. Sophia
2. Emma
3. Ava
4. Isabella
5. Olivia
6. Abigail
7. Mia
8. Emily
9. Madison
10. Chloe

boys

1. Jacob
2. Jayden
3. Aiden
4. Noah
5. Ethan
6. William
7. Alexander
8. Michael
9. Daniel
10. Mason

Boys
1. Jacob
2. Ethan
3. Jayden
4.Michael
5. William
6. Noah
7. Alexander
8. Mason
9. Aiden
10. Logan

Girls
1. Sophia
2. Isabella
3. Olivia
4. Ava
5. Emma
6. Emily
7. Chloe
8. Addison
9. Mia
10. Madison
10. Logan

Girls
1. Sophia
2. Isabella

1. Ava
2. Sophia
3. Isabella
4. Olivia
5. Addison
6. Emma
7. Chloe
8. Madison
9. Mia
10.Emily

1. William
2. Ethan
3. Michael
4. Jacob
5. Aiden
6. Jayden
7. Alexander
8. Noah
9. Mason
10.Logan

I think anything on the Most Hated List will go down, at least a bit. This is mostly the trendy names. I think Mason will go up and Noah and Ethan. And Jacob will be number one. For girls, I think either Isabella or Sophia will be on top and the Em names will go down.

Boys

Jacob
Ethan
Noah
Mason
Alexander
Micheal
Daniel
Anthony
Jayden
William

Girls

Isabella
Sophia
Ava
Olivia
Mia
Emma
Abigail
Emily
Chloe
Madison

I think Charlotte will Enter the top 10 for the girls, and Aiden will definitly climb higher…all those Aiden sounding names are soo popular..I know more Braydens (all spelled differently) then any other baby boy at the moment. I also think Jack might hit near the top 10 if not on it

girls
1. Sophia
2. Isabella
3. Olivia
4. Ava
5. Ella
6. Emma
7. Emily
8. Addison
9. Madison
10.Lily

I think Ella, Lily, and Avery will make the biggest jumps.

boys
1. William
2. Jacob
3. Ethan
4. Alexander
5. Noah
6. Jayden
7. Mason
8. Michael
9. Daniel
10.Jackson

I think Aiden is going to go way down, but the rhyming names will still climb. Also, the biggest jumps will be William, Mason, and Jackson.

1. Sophia
2. Isabella
3. Olivia
4. Ava
5. Emma
6. Emily
7. Lily
8. Ella
9. Mia
10.Madison

1. Jacob
2. Michael
3. Ethan
4. Alexander
5. Jayden
6. William
7. Aidan
8. Noah
9. Daniel
10 Jackson

Girls
1. Sophia
2. Emma
3. Isabella
4. Ava
5. Madison

Boys
1. Aiden
2. Jackson
3. Ethan
4. Liam
5. Jacob

Girls

1. Isabella
2. Ava
3. Olivia
4. Emma
5. Sophia
6. Abigail
7. Emily
8. Madison
9. Elizabeth
10. Ella

Harper, London, Ruby and Scarlett will be new to Top 100

Boys

1. Jacob
2. Michael
3. William
4. Ethan
5. Mason
6. Jayden
7. Noah
8. Alexander
9. Daniel
10. Aidan

Bentley, Jake, Nolan and Grayson will be new to Top 100.

Isabella
Olivia
Sophia
Emma
Ava
Emily
Abigail
Chloe
Addison
Elizabeth

Jacob
Ethan
William
Michael
Alexander
Aiden
Noah
Daniel
Logan
Mason

Ava is definitely on the rise. It’s hard to say what’s going to be popular in the US because I’m in suburbian Australia, haha.
But Ruby has been crazy popular the last couple of years (because of popular Oz show Packed To The Rafters and maybe also the song of that name by The Kaiser Chiefs), so maybe it’s due for a boom in the US?
Is Ethan maybe going to drop a couple of places, I wonder…

Okay, winging it:

Girls:

Ella
Isabella
Lily
Ava
Sophia
Olivia
Addison
Emma
Madison
Emily

Boys:

Alexander
William
Jacob
Ethan
Jayden
Aiden
Mason
Noah
Logan
Michael

1-Jacob
2-Michael
3-Jayden
4-Ethan
5-William
6-Noah
7-Aiden
8-Daniel
9-Mason
10-Anthony

1-Sophia
2-Isabella
3-Olivia
4-Ava
5-Emma
6-Abigail
7-Emily
8-Chloe
9-Mia
10-Ella

1-Olivia
2-Isabella
3-Sophia
4-Emma
5-Emily
6-Chloe
7-Mia
8-Abigail
9-Ella
10-Ava

1-Jacob
2-William
3-Ethan
4-Michael
5-Alexander
6-Noah
7-Daniel
8-Anthony
9-Henry
10-Jack

I don’t know for sure the order, but I do predict Ava going down in popularity and Ella going up. I also think Henry may make it in the top ten this year.

I’m going to guess that Jacob will hold its spot at nimber one, but Isabella won’t, and will be replaced by Olivia. I know it’s a big jump from number four to one, but it is still completely possible. Look at how quickly Isabella rose to number one, for example.

1. Sophia
2. Isabella
3. Olivia
4. Emma
5. Ava
6. Chloe
7. Mia
8. Emily
9. Ella
10. Lily

boys

1. Jacob
2. Jayden
3. Ethan
4. Michael
5. Aiden
6. William
7. Noah
8. Mason
9. Daniel
10. Alexander

Wild card: Potential for Liam to appear in the top 10 (or top 15). Definitely think Elijah has a shot for the top 15, and top 10 in 2012. On the girls side, I think Grace has a distant shot for the top 10, if not in 2011 then in 2012.

william
aidan
ethan
jayden
jacob
noah
daniel
landon
mason
elijah

I met more little Williams this year I think because of our future King’s influence so I think it might be number one. I also know so many landon’s and elijah’s so i predict they will make the jump to to top ten. Other boys names that will jump are Lucas/Luke, Wyatt, Carter and Cooper and Casen-I have met two in the past month. C names were popular this year.

For girls, I will have to say we still love the girly classics so here is my guess:

Emma
olivia
isabella
sophia
madison
abigail
ava
sarah
elizabeth
Lily

While we like traditional girly names for girls I also think the gender neutral names /surname names will soar, like Avery, Delaney, Brynn, Charlie, Hadley, Payton, etc… Really traditional feminine names like Ruby, Charlotte, Mabel, Kate and Georgia will have made great strides too. Can’t wait to see the results.

Other wild cards: Jack or Jackson in the top 10.

I also think Beatrice has a shot to hit the low 700s or high 600s. I think Clara, Eden, Lila, Valentina, Harper, Kennedy, and Scarlett will all break the top 100. London and Ruby potentially too. I imagine Hadley will have shot up too.

My guess is:
1 Isabella
2 Ava
3 sophia
4 Olivia
5 Emma
6 Maddison
7 Chloe
8 Ella
9 Mia
10 Claire

1 Jacob
2 Ethan
3 Aidan
4 Mason
5 Jackson
6 Noah
7 Henry
8 Liam
9 Alexander
10 Daniel

Without reading anyone else’s predictions I think that:
1) Jacob will fall easily out of the first spot.
2) Sophia will over take Isabella.
3) Emily will fall out of the top ten.
4) Emma will fall, but not quite out of the top ten.
I am not great at following trends, but I think William will climb higher.

Girls:

1. Sophia
2. Isabella
3. Olivia
4. Emma
5. Chloe
6. Ava
7. Ella (up from 13)
8. Lily (up from 17)
9. Avery (up from 23)
10. Mia

I’m guessing that Abigail, Madison, and Emily have dropped out of the top 10.

Boys:

1. Jacob
2. Alexander
3. Jayden
4. Noah
5. Ethan
6. Michael
7. William
8. Mason (up from 12)
9. Jackson (up from 25)
10. Liam (up from 30)

I’m prediction Daniel, Aiden, and Anthony have dropped out of the top 10.

Practically every new baby I know is Jackson or Alexander. I don’t think we’re done with the “-aden”s, but they don’t rank as high as it seems they should since you count each spelling on its own.

I would also like to say that I think some names that have been out of the top 1000 for decades will creep back in.

Girls:

1. Sophia
2. Isabella
3. Olivia
4. Emma
5. Ava
6. Emily
7. Madison
8. Abigail
9. Mia
10. Addison

Boys:

1. Jacob
2. Michael
3. Jayden
4. Ethan
5. William
6. Alexander
7. Noah
8. Aiden
9. Daniel
10. Mason

My predictions:
1. Sophia
2. Isabella
3. Emma
4. Ava
5. Olivia
6. Emily
7. Abigail
8. Mia
9. Madison
10. Ella

1. William
2. Jacob
3. Ethan
4. Noah
5. Michael
6. Aiden
7. Alexander
8. Daniel
9. Christopher
10. Mason

I don’t know about the specifics of the top 10 names, but I definitely think Harper, Ruby, Clara and Lila will have gone up.

My 2011 Predictions:
Boy
1 Jacob
2 Jayden
3 Ethan
4 William
5 Michael
6 Noah
7 Aiden
8 Alexander
9 Mason
10 Daniel

Girl
1 Sophia
2 Isabella
3 Ava
4 Emma
5 Olivia
6 Chloe
7 Mia
8 Abigail
9 Emily
10 Addison

In no particular order:

Girls:
Olivia
Abigail
Emma
Sophia
Isabella
Lily
Grace
Addison
Madison
Ava

Boys:
Jacob
William
James
Noah
Aiden
Elijah
Daniel
Alexander
Michael
Ethan

My predictions for 2011
Boys
1 Jacob
2 Jayden
3 Noah
4 William
5 Mason
6 Aiden
7 Michael
8 Ethan
9 Logan
10 Alexander

Girls
1 Sophia
2 Isabella
3 Olivia
4 Ava
5 Chloe
6 Emma
7 Abigail
8 Mia
9 Ella
10 Lily

In addition to my top 10 predictions I just posted, I believe the biggest movers within the top 100 will be Charlotte & Harper for girls, and Liam, Owen & Oliver for boys .

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Girls:
1 Sophia
2 Olivia
3 Isabella
4 Emma
5 Chloe
6 Abigail
7 Ava
8 Emily
9 Ella
10 Lily

Boys:
1 Jacob
2 Ethan
3 William
4 Michael
5 Alexander
6 Noah
7 Jayden
8 Aiden
9 Mason
10 Daniel

For the girls, Zoe, Charlotte, Claire, Sophie, Ruby, Annabelle, Harper will all go up. K names (especially misspellings, a la Khloe) will begin to decline (or is that just wishful thinking?), and vowel names and L names will rise/stay popular.

For the boys, Logan, James, Gabriel, Liam, Julian, Wyatt, Sebastian, Henry, Oliver will all go up. O, X and Z names will continue their upward trend.

Sophia has to be #1. Most of the people I know that have had daughters recently have named their daughters Sophia. It seems to be the #1 girls name where I live.
I would think that Aiden would be higher, maybe even as high as #1 for boys.

Girls:
1. Sophia
2. Isabella
3. Emma
4. Ava
5. Olivia
6. Emily
7. Abigail
8. Chloe
9. Mia
10. Madison

Boys:
1. Jacob
2. Jayden
3. Ethan
4. Michael
5. Alexander
6. William
7. Noah
8. Aiden
9. Daniel
10. Joshua

I don’t have time to look at who I think the biggest movers are going to be but I think some newbies on the top 1000 this year may be Estella, Sariyah, Amaris, and Annette for girls. Enoch, Truman, Glenn, Miller, and Maximillian for boys.

1-Jacob
2-Michael
3-Alexander
4-Ethan
5-Jayden
6-William
7-Aiden
8-Daniel
9-Noah
10-Mason

1. Sophia
2. Isabella
3. Emma
4. Ava
5. Olivia
6. Emily
7. Abigail
8. Chloe
9. Mia
10. Lilly

1. Isabella
2. Olivia
3. Emma
4. Ava
5. Sophia
6. Lily
7. Emily
8. Abigail
9. Mia
10. Chloe

1. Jacob
2. Michael
3. William
4. Aiden
5. Jayden
6. Ethan
7. Noah
8. Alexander
9. Daniel
10. Joshua

Isabella
Olivia
Sophia
Ava
Emma
Emily
Abigail
Mia
Elizabeth
Ella

boys

Jacob
Ethan
Michael
Jayden
Noah
William
Alexander
Aiden
Anthony
Mason

I think Charles will go up. There are two little Charlies near me. But of course, that’s just near me.

1. Sophia
2. Olivia
3. Isabella
4. Ava
5. Abigail
6. Emily
7. Emma
8. Chloe
9. Addison
10. Madison

1. Jacob
2. Michael
3. Ethan
4. William
5. Alexander
6. Jayden
7. Daniel
8. Noah
9. Aiden
10. Jackson

For the girls, I’ve predicted the supplanting of Isabella by Sophia, swapped some of the places and predicted that Addison will enter the top 10, going up past Madison.
For the boys, I don’t see Jacob leaving yet awhile…sigh. There’s nothing wrong with Jacob, but a decade on top is surely enough. I’m predicting (probably wildly) that Jackson will enter the top 10. I sure know more little Jacksons than Anthonys!
Can’t wait for tomorrow’s announcement–maybe Jacob will be unseated by a dark horse!

1. Sophia
2. Isabella
3. Olivia
4. Ava
5. Emma
6. Mia
7. Chloe
8. Emily
9. Ella
10. Abigail

1. Jacob
2. Michael
3. Ethan
4. William
5. Noah
6. Aiden
7. Jayden
8. Mason
9. Alexander
10. Daniel

And I’m going to predict that Rue will enter the top 1000 for girls!

I don’t think it will quite make the top 10, but I think Theodore will have experienced quite a leap from 2010 to 2011.

My guesses:

Girls:
1. Sophia
2. Isabella
3. Olivia
4. Emma
5. Ava
6. Ella
7. Emily
8. Mia
9. Chloe
10. Abigail

Boys:
1. Jacob
2. Jayden
3. William
4. Ethan
5. Michael
6. Aiden
7. Noah
8. Daniel
9. Alexander
10. Mason

I think Harper, Piper, Hadley, Charlotte and Finley will be among the biggest movers for girls. For boys, maybe Leo, Oliver, Asher and Emmett.

Girls:
1. Sophia
2. Isabella
3. Ava
4. Emily
5. Abigail
6. Olivia
7. Emma
8. Chloe
9. Mia
10.Ella

(If Zoey and Zoe were counted together, they would have been #10 last year! I definitely think that this name is one to watch out for in the future. I can easily see one of them breaking into the top 10 in a few years — especially if one spelling overtakes the other by a more considerable margin.)

Boys:
1. Jacob
2. Ethan
3. Jayden
4. Michael
5. Noah
6. William
7. Alexander
8. Aiden
9. Daniel
10.Anthony

I don’t think we’ll see huge changes in the top 10, but there could be a few.

I think Sophia will take the top spot for girls, bumping Isabella down a spot, but Jacob will hold onto his crown for another year. I predict Noah will enter the top 5, perhaps displacing William, and Mason will enter the top 10 while Anthony falls out. Olivia, Chloe, and Mia could all move up. Emily, Abigail, and Madison are most likely to move down.

Charlotte, Eva, Amelia, and Stella will continue to move up as will Owen, Jack, and Levi. I can picture Estella & Truman entering the top 1000, too.

okay, these are my guesses for 2011 top 10.

1. Jacob.
2. Ethan
3. Jayden
4. Noah.
5. Michael.
6. William.
7. Aiden.
8. Alexander.
9. Mason.
10. Daniel.

1. Sophia.
2. Isabella.
3. Olivia.
4. Ava.
5. Emma.
6. Chloe.
7. Mia.
8. Addison.
9. Ella.
10. Emily.

I think these names will move up: Jackson, Elijah, Logan, Landon, Gabriel, Liam, Easton.
Avery, Charlotte, Harper, Piper, Ruby, Clara, Lila, Isla, Lily…

It’s hard to try to predict these things by what’s most popular where you live, because it varies quite a bit from state to state.

I’d like to do these with combined spellings some time. . Zoe/Zoey, Chloe/Khloe, Lily/Lilly/Lillie,

I think its very possible Lucas breaks into the top ten or close.

Top 10 of 2011:

Girl Names
1. Sophia
2. Isabella
3. Emma
4. Olivia
5. Ava
6. Abigail
7. Mia
8. Emily
9. Madison
10. Chloe

Boy Names
1. Mason
2. Jacob
3. Noah
4. Ethan
5. Jayden
6. Aiden
7. Michael
8. Liam
9. William
10. Elijah

I think Imogene might finally be in the top 1000 within the next few years, if not this year.

Upward movement by a name within the Top 15 is quite difficult just because of the sheer volume and exposure of the names already there. Plus, on the girl side, there is a large gap in the number of children with a certain name down to the next name. Ex. There were 2300 more Isabellas (#1) than Sophias (#2) last year. On the boy side, you must factor in the widespread usage of traditional family names (Michaels, Williams, James, Andrews), etc. plus a smaller comfort zone (not as much brancing out). For those reasons, I don’t see a lot of change, although so many avenues of social media are causing names to jump up and down faster than they used to.

Girls- 1. Isabella (I think it will be extremely close, though). 2. Sophia 3. Olivia 4. Emma 5. Ava 6. Abigail 7. Emily 8. Chloe 9. Addison 10. Mia 11. Ella 12. Madison 13. Elizabeth 14. Lily 15. Natalie

Big movers in the Top 100- Avery, Charlotte
Moving into the Top 100- Scarlett, Harper, London (maybe)
Big movers in the Top 1000- Aria, Alice, Vivian, Isla, Gemma, Willa
Moving into the Top 1000- Thea
Falling quickly- Angelina, Ashley, Rihanna

Boys- 1. Jacob 2. Jayden 3. Ethan 4. William 5. Michael 6. Noah 7. Aiden 8. Mason 9. Alexander 10. Anthony 11. Daniel 12. Joshua 13. Andrew 14. Elijah 15. Matthew

Big movers in the Top 100- Liam, Jaxon, maybe Levi
Into Top 100- Bentley
Big movers in Top 1000- Asher, Sawyer, Leo, Sullivan, Luca
Into Top 1000- Ambrose

These are probably dramatic changes, but here’s my guess.
1. Sophia
2. Olivia
3. Isabella
4. Emma
5. Addison
6. Ava
7. Lily
8. Grace
9. Emily
10. Madison

Charlotte, Harper, Scarlett, Ruby & Lila will go up

1. Jayden
2. William
3. Aiden
4. Mason
5. Ethan
6. Michael
7. James
8. Alexander
9. Noah
10. Michael

Jack, Jackson, Connor, Caleb, Luke, Lucas, Elijah, Evan, & Brayden will go up. For boys, basically anything ending in an -en/-on sound.

1 Sophia
2 isabella
3 Ava
4 Olivia
5 Emma
6 Lily
7 Abigail
8 Ella
9 Addison
10 Chloe

1 Jacob
2 William
3 Ethan
4 Michael
5 Aiden
6 Noah
7 Alexander
8 Jackson
9 Jayden
10 Mason

13 minutes!so excited can’t sleep!

When does the list come out?!

Some big risers for girls in 2011: Aubrey, Scarlett, Brynn, Kendall, Katherine, Eva, Brielle, and Claire. Sophia will take over #1 for girls.

And Mia will pop, too.

The list was supposed to come out today, but the SSA issued a Press Release (yeseterday) saying the announcement is postponed until Monday, when the SSA Commissioner appears on the Today Show. There is now a Press Release listed on their site with Monday’s date (5/14/12) titled: “Jacob and Sophia Take Top Honors on Social Security’s Most Popular Baby Names List”. The link to the release itself is not working, but those sound like sure bets for the top names.
http://www.ssa.gov/pressoffice/pressrel.htm

I’ve been eagerly checking the SSA site, and haven’t seen it yet. I cleaned my cache. Hope I’m not missing something.

The #1 for girls has been volatile the past couple of years. After years of Emily, I think we had Emma, then Isabella. Was Sophia #1 in 2009? Never mind, I can check; I’m just lazy:)

I will do my best, here goes:

girls

Isabella
Sophia
Chloe
Emma
Olivia
Mia
Ava
Emily
Madison
Addison

boys

Ethan
Jacob
Jayden
William
Michael
Aiden
Alexander
Noah
Daniel
Mason