The Most Popular Baby Names of 2017… So Far
The Most Popular Baby Names of 2017 at the half-year mark crown a new boys’ name as king of the list, with Asher reclaiming the Number 1 spot from Ezra.
More hot news from the boys’ side of Nameberry’s popular names list: A fifth of the Top 100 boys’ names are new, with such style darlings as Kane, Magnus, Arlo, and Cassius moving up the ranks.
Boys’ names new to the Top 10 are Jasper and Theodore, in the spotlight as the name of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s youngest child.
With girls’ names, the standings are relatively more sedate, a turnaround from the usual pattern. Olivia maintains her reign as the Number 1 girls’ name among Nameberry’s visitors, with Amelia and Charlotte holding steady in second and third place. The new names in the girls’ Top 10 are classics Evelyn, Penelope, and Eleanor.
Nameberry’s half-year popularity list is created by calculating which names received the biggest share of the more than 30 million unique views of our name pages in the first half of 2017. This level of interest is one of the best ways to identify current baby name trends and to gauge future name popularity.
Hottest Names for Girls of 2017
Five girls’ names made their debut on the Top 100 in the first half of this year. They are:
1. Celeste
2. Ines (the name of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ baby girl)
3. Fiona
4. Saskia
5. Alexandra
The hottest girls’ names — those that climbed the most spots up the 2017 list compared with their standing among the Top 100 baby names for 2016 — are:
1. Evelyn, +60
2. Amara, +42
3. Ada, +27
4. Phoebe, +22
5. Gemma, +21
6. Naomi, +20
7. Matilda, +19
8. Sienna, +19
9. Ophelia, +16
10. Isabel, +16
Hottest Names for Boys of 2017
A whopping 20 names are new on the boys’ side this year. They are, in order of appearance on the Top 100:
1. Charlie
2. Everett
3. Dante
4. Lucas
5. Kane
6. Rhett
7. Jonathan
8. Xander
9. Magnus
10. Emmett
11. Ian
12. Maverick
13. Winston
14. Augustus
15. Kian
16. Arlo
17. Cassian
18. Edward
In addition, here are the five boys’ names that rose the most from last year’s Top 100:
1. Kai, +57
2. Cassius, +33
3. George, +33
4. Jude, +31
5. Finn, +26
Top 100 Names for GIRLS and boys
Here is the full list of Nameberry’s Top 100 Most Popular Names for Girls and for Boys for 2017, so far (listed in order as Girl, Boy).
1. Olivia, Asher
2. Amelia, Atticus
3. Charlotte, Jack
4. Isla, Ezra
5. Isabella, Theodore
6. Ava, Milo
7. Aurora, Jasper
8. Evelyn, Oliver
9. Penelope, Silas
10. Eleanor, Wyatt
11. Arabella, Henry
12. Rose, Matthew
13. Cora, Leo
14. Amara, Declan
15. Ophelia, Oscar
16. Violet, Xavier
17. Luna, Finn
18. Elizabeth, Levi
19. Hazel, Thomas
20. Esme, Sebastian
21. Maeve, Felix
22. Adeline, Axel
23. Alice, Benjamin
24. Thea, Alexander
25. Lucy, Kai
26. Audrey, Caleb
27. Genevieve, William
28. Imogen, Zachary
29. Emma, Miles
30. Nora, Ethan
31. Claire, Julian
32. Sadie, Elijah
33. Mia, James
34. Ivy, Andrew
35. Scarlett, Callum
36. Aurelia, Arthur
37. Jane, Liam
38. Eloise, Bodhi
39. Lydia, Charles
40. Iris, John
41. Emilia, Aryan
42. Elise, Jude
43. Evangeline, Eli
44. Lila, Soren
45. Caroline, Roman
46. Stella, Harrison
47. Julia, Charlie
48. Anna, Harry
49. Chloe, Nathaniel
50. Astrid, Ronan
51. Isabel, Jacob
52. Aria, Tobias
53. Clara, Cassius
54. Adelaide, Isaac
55. Ada, Ryker
56. Matilda, Everett
57. Sienna, Archer
58. Ella, George
59. Eliza, Samuel
60. Josephine, Dante
61. Phoebe, Isaiah
62. Beatrice, Owen
63. Mae, Lachlan
64. Elodie, Luke
65. Mila, Daniel
66. Hannah, Lucas
67. Maisie, Kane
68. Zoe, Graham
69. Grace, Rhett
70. Willow, Hugo
71. Seraphina, Wesley
72. Naomi, Jonathan
73. Celeste, Gideon
74. Ellie, Xander
75. Poppy, Magnus
76. Sophia, Emmett
77. Gemma, Ian
78. Khaleesi, Josiah
79. Emily, Lewis
80. Freya, Maverick
81. Jade, Joseph
82. Madeline, Nolan
83. Molly, Beckett
84. Elsie, Simon
85. Maya, Lucian
86. Margaret, Louis
87. Zara, Winston
88. Daisy, Gabriel
89. Rebecca, Connor
90. Willa, Augustus
91. Eliana, David
92. Juliet, Vincent
93. Ines, Nathan
94. Evie, Kian
95. Abigail, Arlo
96. Fiona, Cassian
97. Saskia, Harvey
98. Annabelle, Griffin
99. Alexandra, Abel
100. Mabel, Edward
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This article was previously published on Nameberry.
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