It’s time for the March Madness Baby Names 2026 Boys SemiFinals!
What is this contest, you make ask? Every March, when most people are watching basketball, we turn our attention to a different kind of competition. We take the sixteen wild, wonderful, most-viewed names at Appellation Mountain from the prior year, and set them up, bracket-style. The competition reveals just one girls’ champ and a single victor on the boys’ side, too.
For more details on past winners, and this year’s competition, check out the Opening Round.
Your votes have narrowed the field from sixteen contenders at the beginning to eight last week, and now? We’re down to just four.
Let’s review last week’s outcomes.
MARCH MADNESS BABY NAMES 2026: RESULTS FROM THE QUARTERFINALS
Every round, this feels a little harder!
Jett swept past Huxley with almost 65% of the total. Brief and complete Jett has been unstoppable so far.
With 63% of the tally, Crew bested Townes. So far, those one-syllable names are on a roll in this year’s March Madness Baby Names.
Adrian handily defeated Wells, 60% to 40%. It’s one of the more classic name advancing so far, a Top 100 favorite in the US since the early 1990s. Also worth noting: Adrian made it to the semfinals last year, too.
Traditional Ethan also won, moving past Blaise with just over 56% of the count. Ethan is the other traditional name advancing in the tournament.
Past victors range from Caspian to James, so this contest could go either way …
MARCH MADNESS BABY NAMES 2026: BOYS SEMIFINALS
JETT versus ETHAN
CREW versus ADRIAN
THANKS FOR VOTING!
Polls remain open until Wednesday, March 25th. Check back on Saturday, March 28th to see if your favorites advance – and, of course, to vote in the next round!
