Top 100 Boys' Names of 2010

Earlier we looked at the most popular girls' names on nameberry so far this year; now we turn our attention to nameberry's top 100 boys' names for 2010.

The top seven names remain the same from the first quarter count, with Henry, Finn, and Oliver holding strong at numbers 1, 2, and 3. This greater stability on the boys' side echoes the pattern in the overall U.S. popularity list, where boys' names tend to maintain their places longer than girls' names.

The fastest riser is Sawyer, with Declan, Simon, Micah, Graham, and Landon also making big leaps. Names that slid the furthest are Kyle and Caleb.

New to the Top 100 from the first quarter (and marked with an asterisk*) are Satchel, Nico, Nicholas, Xavier (number 101 in the last count), Micah, Graham, and Landon. No-shows this quarter include Hugh, Griffin, and Liev.

But don't read too much into which names are moving up and down the list compared with the first quarter. Most shifts are slight and temporary, and it's hard to find any pattern behind them. Some classic boys' names like Michael and Alexander are heading down, for instance, but others such as John, Joseph, and Robert are trending up. Luke and Luca are slipping down, but Lucas is up. These won't necessarily translate into long term trends.

­­As we said with the girls' list, this roster is vastly different than the official list of Most Popular Names in the U.S. The Social Security list is based on all actual births and name choices in the country, while the nameberry list measures which names our relatively style-conscious visitors are most curious about.

Plus nameberry searches come from around the globe -- about a third of our visitors are from outside the US -- and the nameberry list is up-to-the-minute, while the most recent Social Security list is for 2009. Consider this, then, a look at which names may be more popular in the months and years ahead.

The boys' Top 100 baby names 2010 are:

1. HENRY =

2. FINN =

3. OLIVER =

4. JAMES =

5. ASHER =

6. JACK =

7. MAX =

8. JASPER up

9. LIAM up

10. ATTICUS up

11. JUDE down

12. OWEN up

13. FELIX down

14. WILLIAM up!

15. KAI up

16. MILO up

17. NOAH up

18. JOHN up

19. LEO up

20. SAWYER up

21. SEBASTIAN up

22. MICHAEL down

23. HUDSON up

24. SATCHEL up*

25. LEVI =

26. THEO up

27. ALEXANDER down

28. AUDEN up

29. BENJAMIN up

30. ROWAN up

31. AUGUST down

32. DASHIELL up

33. PHINEAS down

34. RYAN down

35. RHYS down

36. BECKETT up

37. MILES down

38. ELI down

39. ELLIOT down

40. RILEY down

41. LUCAS up

42. ETHAN up

43. SILAS down

44. ANDREW up

45. OSCAR up

46. JACOB up

47. LOGAN up

48. DAVID up

49. ISAAC up

50. MASON down

51. EVAN down

52. JACKSON down

53. DECLAN up

54. THOMAS down

55. DANIEL =

56. ROMAN down

57. KYLE down

58. EDWARD down

59. EZRA up

60. CHARLIE down

61. CHARLES down

62. GEORGE down

63. GUS down

64. GABRIEL up

65. LUKE down

66. TOBIAS up

67. COLE down

68. SIMON up

69. SAMUEL up

70. LUCA down

71. DYLAN down

72. WYATT down

73. NATHAN down

74. PETER down

75. THEODORE up

76. AIDAN up

77. DEXTER =

78. JOSEPH up

79. EVERETT up

80. JULIAN up

81. MATTHEW down

82. ROBERT up

83. IAN up

84. JONAH up

85. NICO up*

86. CALEB down

87. SAM up

88. CARTER up

89. ASH down

90. EMMETT up

91. CALLUM down

92. NICHOLAS up*

93. XAVIER up*

94. HOLDEN down

95. GAVIN up

96. ORION up

97. MICAH up*

98. GRAHAM up*

99. LANDON up*

100. RUFUS =

Follow us on twitter @nameberry

 

 

 

Follow Pamela Redmond Satran on Twitter: www.twitter.com/nameberry

Comments

[Mister Biggles]

08:00 PM on 07/19/2010

Such metrosexual names these days.

[Angelus2007]

03:01 PM on 07/19/2010

We aren't going to have a kid for a while, but glad to see Desmond isn't on that list (that is what we are thinking if it is a boy).

[edgraham]

10:50 AM on 07/19/2010

Finn, seriously, Finn?

Number 2

Finn?

[writergal28]

11:06 AM on 07/18/2010

I have NEVER in my life heard of the name, Satchel. Sounds like some kind of bag. Personally, I will likely stick to more traditional names for my kids.

[expatwing]

07:30 AM on 07/19/2010

I worked at a summer camp about 10 years ago and there was a camper called Satchel, he was probably about 12-13 at the time... never met another one though!

[Angelus2007]

02:58 PM on 07/19/2010

Satchel Page is the only one I can think of.

[YouCANTCallitIT]

09:10 AM on 07/18/2010

View this list more as a PREDICTOR rather than measure of current numbers. Most of these names are trending in urban upwardly-mobile and artistic communities.

[madgrrl]

11:54 PM on 07/17/2010

Growing up all the boys had the same name. In class there would be like 4 Mikes, 3 Bobs, 4 Jim's sooo boring. But if you want to be a trendsetter name your son Bob - he will be the ONLY one in his whole school.

[negirl]

07:58 PM on 07/16/2010

tee hee - i'm having a baby boy in august and he is named Max.

[SlowBurn]

07:56 PM on 07/15/2010

Looks like a lot of t.v. and twilight-loving parents - although can some explain to me why there are so many more boys named Jasper than Jacob? Jasper, really?

[MissCupcake]

01:24 AM on 07/16/2010

This is a list of names searched on a baby name web site. Not a list of babies with these names from Social Security. Parents might research the name Jasper but name the baby something completely different.

[SlowBurn]

02:30 AM on 07/16/2010

Thanks for clarifying. I need to be a more careful reader, because I skipped the entire section discussing that. A bit misleading!

[madgrrl]

11:51 PM on 07/17/2010

Vampire name from Twilight. I wonder how many girls will be named Bella.

[Jdaddy1951]

01:21 AM on 07/15/2010

My name, James, is in the Top 10 just as it was sixty years ago (so I'm told; it was before my time and I have Abs of Steel and still believe in Santa, too). Can't beat the classics ...

[LMPE]

10:55 PM on 07/14/2010

Including short forms of names skews the list. Charlie and Charles were right next to each other!

I assume that names like Melvin and Stanley have completely died out.

[brahdog]

02:22 AM on 07/14/2010

with about 10 exceptions, these are so much better than the girls' names

[Al91206]

05:48 PM on 07/14/2010

I hope one of your exceptions is Rufus ...

[brahdog]

08:29 PM on 07/14/2010

hells no, whaddaya freaking kidding. rufus rocks

[thaggas]

04:39 PM on 07/13/2010

Their methodology seems seriously flawed. And the results are very unusual.

Perhaps the folks at Research 200 helped out.

[brahdog]

12:39 AM on 07/14/2010

they're trending the top searches for their website. what's the flaw

[thaggas]

09:30 AM on 07/20/2010

The flaw is that one person (let's say Julia Roberts) names their kid Finn. Then people Google it. These "Top Names" are nothing more than people searching for information about them. What's flawed is that very few people actually name their kids Finn.