Stylish vs Popular: The boys’ edition
Yesterday we did a rundown on the divide between the girls’ names that are stylish to the point where it feels like they must be popular and those that are actually, statistically widely used. It’s especially hard to distinguish when it comes to the names we see appearing so often in berry posts and blogs.
So here we do a similar analysis for the boys, with some similarly surprising results, especially when it comes to those berry faves,…names such as Theo. It’s easy to be fooled if you live in a place where there are more Atticuses than Aidens in your neighborhood playground.
Once again, the numbers in parentheses represent how many babies were given that name in the most recent U.S. Count.
Abner (162) is stylish, while Abraham (1,899) is popular
Ace (395) is cool; Chase (6,397) is hot
Anders (213) is stylish, while Anderson (1,013) is popular
Augustine (187) is stylish, while August (635) is quite popular
Bodhi (220) is stylish; Brody (5,015) is popular
Bowen (165) and Odin are stylish, but Owen (8,136) is popular
Callum (247) is stylish, while Liam (10,852) is popular
Cassius (191) is stylish, but Cash (1,310) is popular
Clinton (196) is stylish, while Carter (8,101) is popular
Darwin (729) is stylish, while Dalton (1,315) is popular
Dexter (582) is stylish; Derek (2,276) is popular
Edison (226) is stylish, while Hudson (2,830) is popular
Finnegan (461) is stylish; Finn (1,081) is relatively popular
Gideon (569) is stylish, but Gabriel (12, 722) is popular
Graydon (110) is stylish, but Jayden 17,000) is popular
Harry (363) has style, while Henry (6,330) has big numbers
Jagger 762 is stylish, while Justin (7,792) has long been popular
Jefferson (660) is stylish; Jackson (11,693) is popular
Lennox (214) is stylish, while Maddox (2,090) is popular
Lucian (444) is stylish, but Luke (8,767) is popular
Matthias (826) is stylish, but Matthew (13,954) is popular
Maximo (257) is stylish, while Maxwell (2,985) is popular
Miller (188) is cool, but Cooper (5,206) is popular
Nash (401) is stylish, while Ashton (3,204) is popular
Remy (237) is stylish, while Ryan (11,886) rules
Samson (239) is stylish, but Samuel (11,776) is popular
Seamus (236) is stylish, while Sean (3,693) is popular
Smith (76) is stylish, while Mason (14,728) is popular
Sullivan (653) is stylish, but Riley (3,606) is popular
Theo (228) is stylish, but Leo (1,913) is popular
Valentino (259) is stylish, but Romeo (845) is getting popular
Wylie (73) is stylish; Wyatt (7,319) is popular
Zachariah (591) is stylish, while Jeremiah (7,645) is popular
Did any of these statistics surprise you?