Nameberry Top 10 Girls and Boys Names

General Name Discussion
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I am not sure if this has been done recently, but I’m interested in compiling a list of the most popular names here on Nameberry. :]

So if you don’t mind, I’d like you to list your top ten names (not combinations, just single names) so I can make a list out of them and post that in a couple of weeks. :slight_smile:

Spelling variations will be counted as separate names for ease of counting but I may make a combined list too.

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Boys:
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I will post mine shortly.

Thanks!

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Good idea! :slight_smile:

[name]Louisa[/name]
[name]Genevieve[/name]
[name]Julia[/name]
[name]Fiona[/name]
[name]Eloise[/name]
[name]Cordelia[/name]
[name]Alice[/name]
[name]Maeve[/name]
[name]Lydia[/name]
[name]Jessamine[/name]

[name]Matthias[/name]
[name]Frederick[/name]
[name]Hadrian[/name]
[name]Finn[/name]
[name]William[/name]
[name]Oliver[/name]
[name]Elias[/name]
[name]Leander[/name]
[name]Henry[/name]
[name]Benjamin[/name]

As usual, I could’ve added at least 10 more girl’s names to the list, while it was a struggle to come up with 10 favorite boy’s names.

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I agree with the irisrose, boys names are just so much harder!

[name]Alice[/name]
[name]Flora[/name]
[name]Clementine[/name]
[name]Violet[/name]
[name]Cordelia[/name]
[name]Eleanor[/name]
[name]Audrey[/name]
[name]Ingrid[/name]
[name]Imogen[/name]
[name]Hermione[/name]

[name]Theodore[/name]
[name]Edward[/name]
[name]Milo[/name]
[name]Emmett[/name]
[name]Arthur[/name]
[name]William[/name]
[name]Leopold[/name]
[name]Jasper[/name]
[name]Atticus[/name]
[name]Willoughby[/name]

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Mine:

Girls:

  1. [name]Margaret[/name]
  2. [name]Josephine[/name]
  3. [name]Miriam[/name]
  4. [name]Elisabeth[/name]
  5. [name]Alice[/name]
  6. [name]Ada[/name]
  7. [name]Augusta[/name]
  8. [name]Lillian[/name]
  9. [name]Cordelia[/name]
  10. [name]Ingrid[/name]

Boys:

  1. [name]Gideon[/name]
  2. [name]Arthur[/name]
  3. [name]Leopold[/name]
  4. [name]James[/name]
  5. [name]William[/name]
  6. [name]Augustin[/name]
  7. [name]Winston[/name]
  8. [name]Thomas[/name]
  9. [name]Alexander[/name]
  10. [name]Henry[/name]
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I thought it was harder to get girls names than boys! More choice maybe :wink:
In no particular order…
Girls:
[name]January[/name]
[name]Juniper[/name]
[name]Imogen[/name]
[name]Eliza[/name]
[name]Mayim[/name]
[name]Skye[/name]
[name]Ksenia[/name]
[name]Zara[/name]
[name]Nell[/name]
[name]Emilia[/name]

Boys:
[name]Ezra[/name]
[name]Elijah[/name]
[name]River[/name]
[name]Jude[/name]
[name]Cooper[/name]
[name]Archer[/name]
[name]James[/name]
[name]Dashiell[/name]
[name]Blaise[/name]
[name]Dylan[/name]

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Fun idea! My lists change pretty often, but for now here are mine-

[name]Agatha[/name]
[name]Beatrice[/name]
[name]Blythe[/name]
[name]Clementine[/name]
[name]Eleanor[/name]
[name]Emilia[/name]
[name]Eve[/name]
[name]Imogen[/name]
[name]Josephine[/name]
[name]Verity[/name]

[name]Beau[/name]
[name]Charles[/name] nn [name]Cal[/name]
[name]Edward[/name]
[name]Edwin[/name]
[name]Griffin[/name]
[name]Henry[/name] nn [name]Hank[/name]
[name]Jesse[/name]
[name]John[/name]
[name]Miles[/name]
[name]Rhett[/name]

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BUMP

Please do this!

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Girls:

  1. [name]Hermione[/name]
  2. [name]Martha[/name]
  3. [name]Dorothy[/name]
  4. [name]Margaret[/name]
  5. [name]Josephine[/name]
  6. [name]Cordelia[/name]
  7. [name]Mary[/name]
  8. [name]Charlotte[/name]
  9. [name]Persephone[/name]
  10. [name]Tallulah[/name]

Boys:

  1. [name]Severus[/name]
  2. [name]Horatio[/name]
  3. [name]Edward[/name]
  4. [name]Frederick[/name]
  5. [name]Lawrence[/name]
  6. [name]John[/name]
  7. [name]Archibald[/name]
  8. [name]Algernon[/name]
  9. [name]Bartholomew[/name]
  10. Godric
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  1. Zemirah

  2. Savrina

  3. [name]Catarina[/name]

  4. [name]Amerie[/name]

  5. [name]Kalina[/name]

  6. Mahalet

  7. [name]Zahara[/name]

  8. Lirona

  9. [name]Eviana[/name]

  10. [name]Colette[/name]

  11. Liron

  12. [name]Asher[/name]

  13. [name]Cassian[/name]

  14. [name]Desmond[/name]

  15. [name]Malachi[/name]

  16. [name]Archer[/name]

  17. [name]Zachary[/name]

  18. [name]Elliott[/name]

  19. [name]Moshe[/name]

  20. [name]Mikhail[/name]

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  1. [name]Isla[/name]

  2. [name]Viola[/name]

  3. [name]Lydia[/name]

  4. [name]Hazel[/name]

  5. [name]Annabel[/name]

  6. [name]Alice[/name]

  7. [name]Hermione[/name]

  8. [name]Iris[/name]

  9. [name]Orla[/name]

  10. [name]Araminta[/name]

  11. [name]Jasper[/name]

  12. [name]William[/name]

  13. [name]Charles[/name]

  14. [name]Andrew[/name]

  15. [name]Rowan[/name]

  16. [name]George[/name]

  17. [name]Seamus[/name]

  18. [name]Edgar[/name]

  19. [name]Emil[/name]

  20. [name]Theo[/name]

That was fun. :smiley:

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[name]Lovely[/name] idea! Not really in an order… And they change a lot.

  1. [name]Abigail[/name]

  2. [name]Sunday[/name]

  3. [name]Felicity[/name]

  4. [name]Hazel[/name]

  5. [name]Maeve[/name]

  6. [name]Matilda[/name]

  7. [name]Patience[/name]

  8. [name]Tallulah[/name]

  9. [name]Eulalia[/name]

  10. [name]Willow[/name]

  11. [name]Asher[/name]

  12. [name]Dallas[/name]

  13. [name]Elijah[/name]

  14. [name]Isaac[/name]

  15. [name]Landon[/name]

  16. [name]Wyatt[/name]

  17. [name]Noah[/name]

  18. [name]Alexander[/name] nn [name]Sasha[/name]

  19. [name]Shiloh[/name]

  20. [name]William[/name]

That was soooo hard, not gonna lie! :slight_smile: Can’t wait to see the results!

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Mine changes a lot too, but as of right now:
[name]Annabella[/name]
[name]Sofia[/name]
[name]Margaret[/name]
[name]Jessamine[/name]
[name]Noemi[/name]
[name]Carys[/name]
[name]Felicity[/name]
[name]Chiara[/name]
[name]Sabina[/name]
[name]Raquel[/name]

[name]Elias[/name]
[name]Callum[/name]
[name]Ray[/name]
[name]Luca[/name]
[name]Kieran[/name]
[name]Flynn[/name]
[name]Amedeo[/name]
[name]Nico[/name]
[name]Benjamin[/name]
[name]Jack[/name]

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  1. [name]Rose[/name] nn [name]Rosie[/name]
  2. [name]Genevieve[/name]
  3. [name]Charlotte[/name] nn [name]Lollie[/name]
  4. [name]Elizabeth[/name] nn [name]Lizzie[/name]
  5. [name]Celia[/name]/[name]Cecilia[/name]
  6. [name]Beatrix[/name] nn [name]Bee[/name]
  7. [name]Emma[/name] (I know, it’s SO popular)
  8. [name]Eleanor[/name] nn [name]Ella[/name]
  9. [name]Phoebe[/name]
  10. [name]Sylvie[/name] or [name]Sophie[/name] or [name]Sally[/name]… can’t decide!

the girls change a LOT!

  1. [name]Charles[/name] nn [name]Charlie[/name]
  2. [name]Henry[/name]
  3. [name]William[/name]
  4. [name]Oliver[/name]
  5. [name]Theodore[/name] nn [name]Theo[/name]
  6. [name]Julius[/name] nn [name]Jules[/name]
  7. [name]George[/name]
  8. [name]Jack[/name]
  9. [name]Simon[/name]
  10. [name]Nathaniel[/name] nn [name]Nate[/name]

Girls were a struggle because I love so many beautiful names; boys were a struggle because it’s hard to find ten boys names that I like!(as irisrose and others said, as well)

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Girls

  1. [name]Odette[/name]
  2. [name]Scarlett[/name]
  3. [name]Genevieve[/name]
  4. [name]Lorelei[/name]
  5. [name]Gwyneth[/name]
  6. [name]Belle[/name]
  7. [name]Bryn[/name]
  8. [name]Diana[/name]
  9. [name]Clara[/name]
  10. [name]Violet[/name]

Boys

  1. [name]Emmett[/name]
  2. [name]Rhys[/name]
  3. [name]Caledon[/name]
  4. [name]Lachlan[/name]
  5. Macsen
  6. [name]Beau[/name]
  7. [name]Stellan[/name]
  8. [name]Harrison[/name]
  9. [name]Dominic[/name]
  10. [name]Cooper[/name]
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Here’s mine (I alphabetized them; they’re not in any order of preference):

Girls:
[name]Amelia[/name]
[name]Catherine[/name]
[name]Claire[/name]
[name]Fiona[/name]
[name]Isabella[/name]
[name]Kirsten[/name]
[name]Laura[/name]
[name]Leah[/name]
[name]Nancy[/name]
[name]Veronica[/name]

Boys:
[name]Adrian[/name]
[name]Charles[/name]
[name]Gabriel[/name]
[name]Julian[/name]
[name]Lucian[/name]
[name]Oliver[/name]
[name]Ronan[/name]
[name]Rory[/name]
[name]Rowan[/name]
[name]Sebastian[/name]

Note: I made a change to the girls’ list right after posting.

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Girls:
[name]Violet[/name]
[name]Caroline[/name]
[name]Isla[/name]
[name]Lorelei[/name]
[name]Lena[/name]
[name]Aria[/name]
[name]Juliet[/name]
[name]Scarlett[/name]
[name]Spencer[/name]
[name]Claire[/name]

Boys:
[name]Cashel[/name]
[name]Crew[/name]
[name]Jude[/name]
[name]Heath[/name]
[name]Boston[/name] (I’m biased though… this is my son’s name:))
[name]Garrett[/name]
[name]Landon[/name]
[name]Hudson[/name]
[name]Ezra[/name]
[name]Theo[/name]

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[name]Just[/name] letting you all know, when you give several answers, eg: 10. [name]Jane[/name] / [name]Julia[/name] / [name]Bella[/name], I pick the first answer given. This is to make it easier on me when collating and so it’s fair on everyone :]

Thank you all for doing this! I can’t wait to see how it turns out.

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In no particular order:

Girls -
[name]Arabella[/name]
[name]Laura[/name]
[name]Noelle[/name]
[name]Christiana[/name]
[name]Gabrielle[/name]
[name]Rhiannon[/name]
[name]Bethany[/name]
[name]Jenny[/name]
[name]Audrey[/name]
[name]Katherine[/name]

Boys-
[name]Daniel[/name]
[name]John[/name]
[name]Christian[/name]
[name]Elliott[/name]
[name]William[/name]
[name]Lucas[/name]
[name]Alexander[/name]
[name]David[/name]
[name]Conner[/name]
[name]Patrick[/name]

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Skimming these lists, it’s apparent that the very, very few my DH and I both like are really going somewhere. Sigh.

Looks like there’s a lot more variability in the boy list so far. That is not something I would expect.

Elowen, I have a couple of suggestions for what would be interesting. First, one list counting each spelling and variant separately, and then another that counts all the variants together - for example, there’s only one [name]Genevieve[/name], but there are lots of [name]Cecelia[/name] variants; counting the variants together reveals more. Second, it would be interesting to do this again in a couple of months or so to see how the average moves. I think sometimes berries’ likes reflect the emergent trends of a few years from now, but I also think that sometimes a name generates a little buzz on here not because it’s a true berry favorite, but simply because someone had mentioned it, then someone else took note of it and mentioned it again, etc., and it’s on everyone’s minds since it sounds fresh relative to more common berry favorites. I don’t know if that made any sense at all, but it did in my head. :slight_smile:

Anyway. Today, it’s:

  1. [name]Cecily[/name]

  2. [name]Genevieve[/name]

  3. [name]Helena[/name]

  4. [name]Eloise[/name]

  5. [name]Camille[/name]

  6. [name]Adelaide[/name]

  7. [name]Christiane[/name]

  8. [name]Marguerite[/name]

  9. [name]Rosalind[/name]

  10. [name]Cordelia[/name]

  11. [name]Theodore[/name]

  12. [name]David[/name]

  13. [name]Lionel[/name]

  14. [name]Edmund[/name]

  15. [name]Shepherd[/name]

  16. [name]Tristan[/name]

  17. [name]Cormac[/name]

  18. [name]Dexter[/name]

  19. [name]Oliver[/name]

  20. [name]Garrison[/name]

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Girls:

  1. [name]Caroline[/name]
  2. [name]Charlotte[/name]
  3. [name]Anna[/name]
  4. [name]Catherine[/name]
  5. [name]Emily[/name]
  6. [name]Claire[/name]
  7. [name]Elizabeth[/name]
  8. [name]Julia[/name]
  9. [name]Audrey[/name]
  10. [name]Bridget[/name]

Boys:

  1. [name]Jack[/name]
  2. [name]Patrick[/name]
  3. [name]Liam[/name]
  4. [name]Benjamin[/name]
  5. [name]Kyle[/name]
  6. [name]Griffin[/name]
  7. [name]Owen[/name]
  8. [name]Luke[/name]
  9. [name]Andrew[/name]
  10. [name]Aidan[/name]