Three-quarters of the way through the year, we check in again with the most popular girls' names 2010, nameberry style.
Once again, Charlotte heads the list of most-searched girls' names on nameberry. In the number two spot is Violet, and former number two, Seraphina has dropped to third place.
A note on tabulation: These lists represent the most-searched names on nameberry for January through September of 2010. Previously, we published the lists of most-searched girls' names 2010 for the first half of the year, and before that for the first quarter.
This time around, a surprising 11 new girls' names vaulted onto the Top 100. The newly-popular choices (in order of appearance on the list) are:
Eva
Olive
Eden
Annabel
Millie
Elodie
Rory
India
Mabel
Frances
Aurelia
Following are the names moving up the list for the second quarter in a row. Previously, we'd said not to pay too much attention to shifts up or down, but after two bumps up in a row, we start to wonder whether we smell a trend.
Violet
Imogen
Adelaide
Harper
Clementine
Beatrice
Flora
Margaret
Coco
Pearl
Julia
The girls' names making the biggest gains up the baby names 2010 list include:
Adelaide
Aurora
Genevieve
Flora
Celia
Pearl
Mae
Here are the 11 girls names not among the Top 100 this time around. Many of these choices are, to me, not so surprising: they're names that people have been hearing for longer and so may be less curious about.
Remember, these lists represent not what names people are choosing for their children, but which names they're searching on nameberry, so it's a sure bet that while a more familiar name like Emily is getting less search attention than a newcomer such as Elodie, in the end more parents will choose the safer Emily.
Emily
Georgia
Sophie
Natalie
Leah
Harlow
Lulu
Jessica
Jillian
Lauren
Abigail
Girls' names moving down for the second quarter in a row are, in order of their rank on the list:
Isla
Claire
Stella
Lucy
Grace
Arabella
Chloe
Avery
Zoe
Anna
Rose
Sarah
Mia
Ellie
Lydia
Hannah
Sasha
Fiona
The names with the biggest losses were Olivia and Elizabeth, down from 3 and 4 to 17 and 18 respectively, and Sophia down from 7 to 23, along with Audrey, Chloe, Avery, Zoe, Sarah, Penelope.
Here is nameberry's full list of Top 100 girls' names 2010:
1. Charlotte,
2. Violet, up
3. Seraphina, down
4. Imogen, up
5. Adelaide, up
6. Eliza, up
7. Isla, down
8. Alice, up
9. Scarlett, up
10. Lily, up
11. Harper, up
12. Ella, up
13. Maisie, up
14. Amelia,
15. Maeve, up
16. Ruby, up
17. Olivia, down
18. Elizabeth, down
19. Ava, down
20. Caroline, down
21. Matilda, up
22. Clementine, up
23. Sophia, down
24. Lila, up
25. Claire, down
26. Stella, down
27. Evangeline, up
28. Auror,a up
29. Laura, down
30. Lucy, down
31. Willa, up one of fastest falling last time
32. Hazel, up
33. Grace, down
34. Ivy, up
35. Eleanor, up
36. Evelyn, up
37. Isabella, down
38. Nora, up
39. Emma, down
40. Esme, up
41. Beatrice, up
42. Clara, down
43. Cora, up
44. Quinn, down
45. Iris, up
46. Delilah, up
47. Poppy, up
48. Arabella, down
49. Lola, down
50. Genevieve, up
51. Josephine, up
52. Audrey, down
53. Phoebe, up
54. Chloe, down
55. Jane, down
56. Avery, down
57. Wren, up
58. Piper, up
59. Adeline, up
60. Daisy, up
61. Eva, new
62. Flora, up
63. Mae, up
64. Zoe, down
65. Celia, up
66. Rose, down
67. Eloise, down
68. Margaret, up
69. Anna, down
70. Penelope, down
71. Sarah, down
72. Bryn,
73. Olive, new
74. Yvaine, returning after being off last quarter
75. Coco, up
76. Pearl, up (new last time)
77. Eden, new
78. Annabel, new
79. Emmeline,
80. Millie, new
81. Kate, up
82. Elodie, new
83. Louisa, up
84. Rory, new
85. Julia, up
86. Mia, down
87. Mary, down
88. India, new
89. Mabel, new
90. Frances, new
91. Aurelia, new
92. Madeline,
93. Molly, down
94. Juliet, down
95. Ellie, down
96. Lydia, down
97. Hannah, down
98. Sasha, down
99. Fiona, down
100. Maya, returning after being off last quarter
Nameberry (nameberry.com) is a baby-naming site produced by Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz, co-authors of 10 bestselling baby name guides, including the newest, "Beyond Ave and Aiden: The Enlightened Guide to Naming Your Baby."
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