Top Baby Names 2017

Updated Sun Dec 17 2017

Atticus has jumped to the top of Nameberry’s baby name popularity list for 2017, while Olivia remains at the top of the girl’s popularity list for the second year in a row.

Three new names entered Nameberry’s Top Ten in 2017 for each gender: Cora, Maia, and Amara for girls, and Theodore, Jasper, and Henry for boys. Maia is the most surprising newcomer to the group, also new to the Nameberry Top 100 and on the US Top 1000 for only a decade.

Girls’ names new to Nameberry’s Top 100 are Rumi, the name of Beyonce and Jay-Z’s baby daughter, along with Maia, Brielle, Allegro, Celeste, Elena, and Alexandra.

There are more than twice as many new names on the boys’ Top 100. They are:

Here are the Top 100 Names for Girls in 2017:

And here are 2017’s Top 100 Names for Boys:

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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.

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