Girls 1. Sophia 2. Isabella 3. Emma 4. Olivia 5. Ava 6. Emily 7. Abigail 8. Madison 9. Mia 10. Chloe 11. Elizabeth 12. Ella 13. Addison 14. Natalie 15. Lily 16. Grace 17. Samantha 18. Avery 19. Sofia 20. Aubrey Boys 1. Jacob 2. Mason 3. William 4. Jayden 5. Noah 6. Michael 7. Ethan 8. Alexander 9. Aiden 10. Daniel 11. Anthony 12. Matthew 13. Elijah 14. Joshua 15. Liam 16. Andrew 17. James 18. David 19. Benjamin 20. Logan
Sophia is the new most popular baby name for girls, while Jacob is the top name for boys for the 13th straight year in a new list of popular baby names in the U.S. heavily influenced by religion and reality TV.
Isabella, which had been the top girl’s name for two years, dropped to second place in 2011, according to the list released Monday by the the government’s Social Security Administration. Emma, Olivia and Ava rounded out the top five.
Mason, as in Mason Kardashian, jumped 10 spots to become the second-most-popular name for newborn boys last year, knocking Michael out of the top five for the first time in 63 years. Kourtney Kardashian, the reality TV star, gave birth to Mason in December 2009 following a heavily publicized pregnancy.
Rounding out the top five: William, Jayden and Noah. Michael came in sixth, his lowest ranking since 1948.
The Social Security Administration provides lists of baby names dating to 1880 on its website. The top two names that year were John and Mary. The list, which includes top baby names by state, draws millions of people.
The agency hopes that people go to the website to see the baby names and stay to learn about other services, said Social Security Commissioner Michael J. Astrue.
Top girl names tend to be more volatile — changing from year to year — while the top boy names are more stable, Astrue said. William, for example, has been a popular boy’s name for more than 100 years, never falling out of the top 20. Mason is the exception, entering the top 100 for the first time in 1997.
On the girls’ side, Sophia first cracked the top 100 in 1997. Isabella dropped off the list altogether from 1949 to 1990.
Social Security also tracks which names increase in popularity from year to year and which ones drop.
The fastest-rising name for girls: Briella, which jumped 394 spots, to No. 497. Briella Calafiore stars in Jerseylicious, a reality TV show about battling stylists at a beauty salon in New Jersey. She’s also in a spinoff called Glam Fairy.
Brantley was the fastest-rising name for boys, jumping 416 spots to No. 320. Brantley Gilbert is a singer who had a No. 1 country hit called “Country Must Be Country Wide.”
I'm very surprised Dd's name didn't move up to the top 10 considering it was name involved in a big positive world event. We chose it before then and decided we were sticking to our guns though.
Post by HoneySpider on May 15, 2012 10:16:27 GMT -5
I actually really like several of the top girl names but don't want to name any future daughters anything super popular, so might consider it for a middle name, not a first name.
Post by milkrations on May 15, 2012 10:28:54 GMT -5
When I was in high school I loved the names Sophia and Isabella. Now that they've become popular, I don't want to use them for my future hypothetical child.