Popular Baby Names of 2013

Nameberry tallies which names attract the most views among the 14 million page views for all of the names on its site.  The Nameberry popularity list measures which names parents are considering for their children in the future.

Celebrities have a powerful influence on the new popularity lists.  North, the name chosen for the newborn daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, ranks Number 7 among unisex names, its first appearance on that popularity list.  And for boys, Kieran, the name of Mitt Romney’s newly-adopted grandson, attracted considerable new attention on the site.

The Top 10 names for girls for 2013 so far, with asterisks marking those moving up fastest, are:

1. Imogen
2. Charlotte
3. Harper
4. Eleanor
5. Amelia*
6. Evelyn*
7. Isla
8. Violet
9. Penelope
10. Cora*

The Top 10 names for boys for the first nine months of 2013 are:

1. Asher
2. Finn
3. Declan
4. Atticus*
5. James
6. Oliver
7. Henry
8. Emmett*
9. Owen
10. Django

And the Top 10 unisex names are:

1. Rowan*
2. Quinn
3. Kai
4. Sawyer
5. Avery
6. Charlie
7. North*
8. Elliot
9. Finley
10. Emerson

Nameberry is the creation of baby name experts Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond Satran, coauthors of ten bestselling books on names including The Baby Name Bible and Cool Names for Babies.  The five-year-old site attracts more than two million unique visitors a month from around the world.