🎉America's Top Baby Names Announced! 🎉
Happy Name Nerd Christmas!
This week finds us all in Baby Name Nirvana, poring over the newly-released US baby name data for 2023. New rankings! Trends to explore! A chance to check if your secret favorite name is getting too popular! (Mine remains stable, phew 😅)
If you haven’t seen it yet, where have you been the best place to start is our analysis of the Top 10 baby names, and those that have risen and fallen the most.
If you just want the names, you could skip straight to the full Top 1000 list. Or even — if you’re feeling spicy — the more obscure names ranking from 1000-2000.
Newsletter Competition
In last week’s newsletter we invited you to guess the new Top 10 boy and girl names. No one predicted them in exactly the right order (Nameberry editors included). Several of you correctly thought Mateo would join the Top 10 boy names, but not that it would rise as high as 6th place, nor that Mia would also leap up two places to #6.
Honorable mention to EagleEyes, Rachel, Candace, Bridie, and Jayne Alexis for guessing all the right names for both sexes, in a different order. 🏆
Dive Into the Data
Discover the names new to the Top 1000, from Abner to Winifred.
Download the full official SSA data (the 2023 State and Territory data are likely to be released next week, on May 17)
Fantastic analysis by our reader EagleEyes, including popular endings, which vowel endings are rising and falling, all the unisex names in the Top 1000, and more!
Speaking of wonderful analysis, data lovers should head to Nancy’s Baby Names for detailed lists of the fastest-rising names, brand new names in the charts, names returning to the charts, and no doubt more to come.
Abby at Appellation Mountain examines the Top 100 boy names and girl names — which are pretty significant, as they include about 28% of baby girls and 35% of baby boys born in 2023.
An intriguing take on the fastest-falling names by Laura at Namerology: is the surname era coming to an end? Or is it a sign of a new wave of last names as first names?
So many name game opportunities in the new data… like names that just decreased in popularity? Or how about boy-girl twins with the same rank?
There’s so much more to say about this year’s baby name charts, so look out for more on Nameberry this week!