Top Unisex Names 2011

Top Unisex Names 2011

This year for the first time we’ve calculated a list of top unisex names 2011: names listed on Nameberry for both genders that are winning the highest number of page views.

Unisex name popularity is always tricky: Aren‘t most parents searching for top names Harper and Quinn interested in those names for girls?  We believe they are, and if those two gender neutral names were counted in the girls’ tally, they’d rank among the Top 20.

But in fact, some parents are interested in Harper and Quinn as boys’ names, and many of the other names on this list — Sawyer, Rory, and Riley, say — may be considered equally for both genders, while choices such as Parker or River may be used more often for boys.

Here are the top unisex names 2011 on Nameberry.

Top Unisex Names

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1. Harper

2. Quinn

3. Rowan

4. Avery

5. Sawyer

6. Rory

7. Riley

8. Emerson

9. Finley

10. Dylan

11. Luca1

2. Micah

13. Sasha

14. Emery

15. Nico

16. Peyton

17. Remy

18. Blake

19. Aubrey

20. Sage

21. Parker

22. Carter

23. River

24. Teagan

25. Cameron

Don‘t forget to guess #101 on the boys’ and girls’ popularity lists in the Comments section of the past two days’ blogs on Nameberry for a chance to win a signed copy of our book Beyond Ava & Aiden!

*UPDATE!  Unfortunately no one guessed our #101 for girls, which is Isadora.  Two people guessed the boys’ #101, Griffin.  Congratulations!

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.