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:
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.
The girls’ names making the biggest gains up the baby names 2010 list include:
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.
Girls’ names moving down for the second quarter in a row are, in order of their rank on the list:
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:
Violet up
Seraphina down
Imogen up
Adelaide up
Eliza up
Isla down
Alice up
Scarlett up
Lily up
Harper up
Ella up
Maisie up
Amelia =
Maeve up
Ruby up
Olivia down
Elizabeth down
Ava down
Caroline down
Matilda up
Clementine up
Sophia down
Lila up
Claire down
Stella down
Evangeline up
Aurora up
Laura down
Lucy down
Willa up – one of fastest falling last time
Hazel up
Grace down
Ivy up
Eleanor up
Evelyn up
Isabella down
Nora up
Emma down
Esme up
Beatrice up
Clara down
Cora up
Quinn down
Iris up
Delilah up
Poppy up
Arabella down
Lola down
Genevieve up
Josephine up
Audrey down
Phoebe up
Chloe down
Jane down
Avery down
Wren up
Piper up
Adeline up
Daisy up
Eva new
Flora up
Mae up
Zoe down
Celia up
Rose down
Eloise down
Margaret up
Anna down
Penelope down
Sarah down
Bryn =
Olive new
Yvaine – returning after being off last quarter
Coco up
Pearl up (new last time)
Eden new
Annabel new
Emmeline =
Millie new
Kate up
Elodie new
Louisa up
Rory new
Julia up
Mia down
Mary down
India new
Mabel new
Frances new
Aurelia new
Madeline =
Molly down
Juliet down
Ellie down
Lydia down
Hannah down
Sasha down
Fiona down
Maya — returning after being off last quarter
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