These are my choices for the best new baby names 2021. By new, I mean names that returned to or debuted in the US Top 1000 for the first time in calendar year 2020. That data was released on May 7, 2021. You can catch up on all the names – 47 for girls and […]
READ MORE >>New Girl Names 2021: Artemis, Etta, Wrenley
Looking for the new girl names 2021? Every year, the US Social Security Administration releases their Top 1000 lists – the most popular names given to newborn girls and boys in the prior calendar year. The May 7, 2021 update includes data on births from January 1st through December 31st of 2020. And every single […]
READ MORE >>New Boy Names 2021: Adler, Ocean, Zev
Ready for the new boy names 2021? These 38 choices recently entered the US Top 1000, as released on May 7, 2021. To appear in the Top 1000, the names were given to 209 or more boys born during calendar year 2020. But to make this list? It means the name didn’t rank for calendar […]
READ MORE >>Best New Baby Names 2020: Cleo, Callahan, Rome
Time for my choices for the best new baby names 2020. When the new baby names data is released, a certain number of names make the US Top 1000 that weren’t there the prior year. Some had hibernated for decades. Others are all-new debuts. Either way, it’s exciting to see which new names have arrived. […]
READ MORE >>Fastest Rising Boy Names 2020: Luca, Waylon, Brooks
There’s more than one way to define the fastest rising boy names in the US. Most often, we look at rank. Archie jumped over 300 spots; Kenzo and Saint, by more than 100 each. But it’s sometimes more interesting to look at gains in the actual number of babies given a particular name. Archie’s big […]
READ MORE >>Fastest Rising Girl Names: Alaia, Everleigh, Luna
When we talk about the fastest rising girl names, we’re almost always talking about rank. Which name rocketed from #846 to #603? (That would be Lyanna, by the way.) But it’s equally interesting to look at which Top 1000 names rose the most in terms of actual births. After all, rank is relative. A (slightly) […]
READ MORE >>New Boy Names: September 2020 Update
50 new boy names returned or debuted in the US Top 1000 for the calendar year 2020. After much waiting, the US Social Security Administration released all the data on September 4th – just in time for Labor Day! How does 50 new boy names compare to years past? Last year, we reviewed 45 newcomers. […]
READ MORE >>New Girl Names: September 2020 Update
40 new girl names either debuted in or returned to the US Top 1000 for the calendar year 2019. That’s down from 50 last year. The list published in 2018 gave us 43 new girl names. In 2017, 45 girls’ names ranked in the US Top 1000 that did not appear in the prior year. The […]
READ MORE >>Most Popular Baby Names: Olivia and Liam Take the Top Spots
After a long delay, the new baby names popularity data for the United States is here at last! OLIVIA REPLACES EMMA AS THE TOP NAME FOR GIRLS There’s very little change in the girls’ US Top Ten, but we do have a new #1: Olivia. The new Top Ten is as follows: Olivia Emma Ava […]
READ MORE >>Fastest Rising Boy Names 2019 Update
Time to look at the fastest rising boy names 2019. Instead of rank change – this name rose 177 spots, or three spots, or somewhere in between – this list considers change in actual births. Why? First, I suspect it might be a better predictor of future popularity than rank change. After all, rank is […]
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